Author: Lucy Davies
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Riccardi, Silvia, Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art, and the Body
Silvia Riccardi, Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art, and the Body, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) 242 pp. £109.99 Hb, ISBN 978-3-031-64364-4 Silvia Riccardi’s Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art and the Body brings together elements of the visual, literary, and scientific in a beautifully illustrated and incredibly detailed volume. Throughout the work, Riccardi presents a fascinating interplay between the…
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Cogan, Lucy and O’Connell, Michelle, eds, Life, Death and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century
Lucy Cogan and Michelle O’Connell, eds, Life, Death and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) 280 pp. £119.99 Hb. ISBN: 9783021133626 The long nineteenth century was a time of vast scientific advances, when new knowledge of chemistry, anatomy and medicine developed at an unprecedented rate, changing the way people interpreted the world…
