Author: Neeraja Sankaran
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Lars Chittka, The Mind of a Bee; Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds
Lars Chittka, The Mind of a Bee (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022) 272 pp. £30 Hb. £16.99 Pb. ISBN: 9780691180472 Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds (Random House, 2022), 416 pp. £10.99 Pb. £9.99 e-book. ISBN: 9780141991146 Both books reviewed here are invitations to travel to imagined worlds: to the…
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Zaretsky, Robert, Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague
Robert Zaretsky, Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022) 208 pp. $22.50 Cloth. ISBS: 9780226803494 Faced with lockdowns and isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic, Robert Zaretsky did what many people – especially those of us who work in the humanities – do in times…
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Haynes, Roslynn D., From Madman to Crime Fighter: The Scientist in Western Culture
Roslynn D. Haynes, From Madman to Crime Fighter: The Scientist in Western Culture (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017) 424 pp. 23 halftones. $34.95 Pb. ISBN: 9781421423043 From Madman to Crime Fighter is actually a version of a book that first appeared in 1994 under the title From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western Literature.…
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Thorley, David, Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain
David Thorley, Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain (London: Palgrave 2016) x + 231 pp. £45.99 PDF, EPUB, £58.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-137-59311-5 The title of this book immediately recalled to mind a favourite course on Early Modern autobiography from the halcyon first years of graduate school. But a quick glace at its meticulously researched,…
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Ramachandran, Ayesha, The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe
Ayesha Ramachandran, The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2015) 312 pp. $45.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780226288796 In The Worldmakers Ayesha Ramachandran takes readers into many worlds, both of her own making and those imagined by the eponymous ‘worldmakers’, a motley if erudite ensemble cast of mapmakers, anatomists, essayists, poets,…
