Category: Reviews
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Kistler, Jordan, The British Public and the British Museum: Shaping and Sharing Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century
Jordan Kistler, The British Public and the British Museum: Shaping and Sharing Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh University Press, 2026) viii + 307 pp. £95.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781399523752 In the early 1920s, George McCready Price visited the American Museum of Natural History in New York and he did not like what he saw. As…
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Klimchynskaya, Anastasia, Science Fiction and the Modern World: The Emergence of a Genre in a Revolutionary Age
Anastasia Klimchynskaya, Science Fiction and the Modern World: The Emergence of a Genre in a Revolutionary Age (Liverpool University Press, 2026) 206 pp. $130.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781836244905 Anastasia Klimchynskaya’s Science Fiction and the Modern World: The Emergence of a Genre in a Revolutionary Age is a significant intervention in science fiction studies that reconsiders the origins of…
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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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Prkachin, Yvan, Wired Together: The Montreal Neurological Institute and the Origins of Neuroscience
Yvan Prkachin, Wired Together: The Montreal Neurological Institute and the Origins of Neuroscience (University of Chicago Press, 2026) 296 pp. $115 Hb. $35 Pb. ISBN: 022684546X Wired Together: The Montreal Neurological Institute and the Origins of Neuroscience by Yvan Prkachin, as the title suggests, attempts to set the record straight on the origins of neuroscience,…
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Talviste, Eret, Strange Intimacies: Affect, Embodiment and Materiality in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys
Eret Talviste, Strange Intimacies: Affect, Embodiment and Materiality in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) viii+231 pp. £90.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781399502375 The title Strange Intimacies alludes to intimacy as a literary theme, a critical method, and unconventional ways of living life. The intimacies emerging through embodiment, emotions, and material environments are often…
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Reznicek, Matthew L., Tales of Health: Illness, Disability and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale
Matthew L. Reznicek, Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2026) 256 pp. £160.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781805966807 In this detailed, multi-text study of the National Tale genre, Matthew Reznicek demonstrates the enduring importance of the categories of illness, body and health to ideas of nationhood and…
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Kennedy, Meegan, Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy: Beautiful Mechanism
Meegan Kennedy, Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy: Beautiful Mechanism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025) 480 pp. £117.50 Hb. ISBN: 9780198939009 In Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy: Beautiful Mechanism Meegan Kennedy clearly establishes the terrain not only for her own ongoing multi-book project on Victorian microscopy but especially for anyone working on the literature of microscopy.…
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Hay, Jonathan, Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene
Jonathan Hay, Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) xiv + 240pp. £85.00 Hb. £28.99 Pb. £76.50 Ebook: PDF/Epub/Mobi. ISBN 9781350465954 The science fiction (SF) genre typically contains a fantast technological or scientific element: constructed or evolved, not conjured through magic. Darko Suvin defined this feature as the novum. Jonathan Hay’s monograph…
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Gifford, Terry, Reading D. H. Lawrence in the Anthropocene
Terry Gifford, Reading D. H. Lawrence in the Anthropocene (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025) 280pp. £95 Hb. ISBN: 9781399535939 Terry Gifford’s D. H. Lawrence in the Anthropocene offers readers a comprehensive compilation of works by Lawrencian scholars that follows a cleverly crafted and well-written introduction attesting to the importance of Lawrence’s works. Gifford opens the…
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Shetty, Sandhya, Imperial Pharmakon: Writing and Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century
Sandhya Shetty, Imperial Pharmakon: Writing and Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century (Palgrave Macmillan: 2025) xiv + 448 pp. £95.50 eBook £119.99 Hb. ISBN: 978-3-031-90877-4 (eBook) Sifting through an eclectic ensemble of writing, Imperial Pharmakon (2025) by Sandhya Shetty invites its readers into the colonial Indian landscape through the intertwined histories of writing and medicine…
