Category: Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Carey, Brycchan, The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807
Brycchan Carey, The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024) 280 pp. $65.00. Hb. IBSN: 978-0300224412 The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807 by Brycchan Carey magnifies the cross-section of eighteenth-century British abolitionist writing that sought to un-naturalize slavery in a part of the world that…
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Berry, Chelsea, Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World
Chelsea Berry, Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025) 273 pp. $49.95 Hb. ISBN: 9781512826494 Chelsea Berry’s work Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World is a deeply interdisciplinary study that reimagines how we understand poison, healing, and power in the context…
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Sarkar, Debapriya, Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science
Debapriya Sarkar, Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023) 265 pp. $65.00 Hb. ISBN: 97815128-2335-6 In Chapter 4 of Possible Knowledge: The literary forms of Early Modern Science, Margaret Cavendish’s lady with an earring remains unknowing as a whole cosmology comes to life and is annihilated within the…
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Powell, Rosalind, Perception and Analogy: Poetry, Science, and Religion in the Eighteenth Century
Rosalind Powell, Perception and Analogy: Poetry, Science, and Religion in the Eighteenth Century (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021) viii + 296 pp. £85.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-5261-5704-1 The eighteenth century witnessed the profound impact of natural philosophy on every facet of cultural expression. Rosalind Powell’s monograph, Perception and Analogy: Poetry, Science, and Religion in the Eighteenth…
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Habinek, Lianne, The Subtle Knot: Early Modern English Literature and the Birth of Neuroscience
Lianne Habinek, The Subtle Knot: Early Modern English Literature and the Birth of Neuroscience (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Press, 2018), 283 pp. $55 CAD Hb. ISBN: 9780773553187 Could it be like a book, a box, a womb, an engine, a maze, or a palace? Early modern writers experimented with multiple metaphors for the brain in the sixteenth…
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Flaherty, Jennifer and Deborah Uman (eds), Liberating Shakespeare: Adaptation and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences
Jennifer Flaherty and Deborah Uman, eds, Liberating Shakespeare: Adaptation and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), 215pp. PB £21.79. ISBN 978-1-350-32024-3 Flaherty and Uman emphasise in their introduction, ‘Taking Young Adults Seriously’, that Young Adult (YA) Shakespeare is not about ‘dumbing down’ Shakespeare’s work: ‘fun is not synonymous with inconsequential or frivolous. Contemporary…
