Author: Encarnación Trinidad Barrantes
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Williams, Daniel, The Art of Uncertainty: Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel
Daniel Williams, The Art of Uncertainty: Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024) 346 pp. £89.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781009436113 Daniel Williams’s The Art of Uncertainty explores some of the ways in which nineteenth-century fiction drew on and critiqued emerging legal, mathematical, philosophical and scientific ideas. As such, the book joins the…
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Epstein, Hugh, Hardy, Conrad and the Senses
Hugh Epstein, Hardy, Conrad and the Senses (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020) 312 pp. £27.99 Ebook ISBN: 9781474449885 Hugh Epstein’s book offers a persuasive and deftly managed reconsideration of Hardy and Conrad, through which they emerge as ‘compatible’ writers and as particularly eminent figures in late-Victorian culture more broadly (18). Indeed, Hardy, Conrad and the…
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Fyfe, Paul, Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities
Paul Fyfe, Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024) 294 pp. $60.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781503640948 Paul Fyfe’s Digital Victorians eloquently takes readers on an exploratory journey bringing together the Victorian period’s ‘new media’ moment and our own. Indeed, for Fyfe, contemporary developments in media technologies and communication – and…
