Author: Peter Garratt

  • Henchman, Anna, The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature

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    Anna Henchman, The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014) xviii+294 pp. £60 Hb. ISBN 978-0-19-968696-4 Tennyson and Hardy may have gazed at the heavens with a rare intensity, but astronomy provided an important imaginative resource for many poets, novelists and other writers during…

  • Book prize winner

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    The winner of the 2014 BSLS Book Prize is Leah Knight for Reading Green in Early Modern England (Ashgate). Congratulations to Prof. Knight, of Brock University, not only for being a worthy winner for her fascinating, innovative and ambitious exploration of the significations of ‘green’ in the writing and culture of the English Renaissance, but also for…

  • Trower, Shelley, Senses of Vibration

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    Shelley Trower, Senses of Vibration: A History of the Pleasure and Pain of Sound (London: Continuum, 2012). 214pp. £14.99 Pb. ISBN 9781441148636. Good vibrations, as the Beach Boys knew, promise more than just musical pleasure. Indeed, a history of modernity can be written from the perspective of vibration, as Shelley Trower demonstrates in this fascinating…

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