Category: Modern and Contemporary

Lafcadio Hearn, Insect Literature (Dublin: Swan River Press, 2023) xiv+272 pp. €40.00 Hb. €20.00 Pb. ISBN: 9781783800094 Insect Literature’s unique gathering of Lafcadio Hearn’s insect texts feels authentic and intensely personal: a labour of love for writer, editor, and publisher alike. It is a new edition of a posthumous collection of essays and stories by…

Alice Hall (ed.), Contemporary Literature and the Body: A Critical Introduction (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023) x+264pp. £16.99 Pb. $90.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781350180222 In her introduction to Contemporary Literature and the Body: A Critical Introduction (2023), Alice Hall draws on the irony presented by Joanna Stawnicka’s artwork ‘Self -Portrait in Autumn and Self-Portrait in Winter 2021’,…

Sarah Hart, Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature (New York: Flatiron Books, 2023) pp. 290. £16.99 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-250-85088-1 Sarah Hart has written a highly accessible and entertaining reflection on the interactions between mathematics and literature. Once Upon a Prime is intended for a general reader with no assumed academic…

Marija Grech, Spectrality and Survivance: Living the Anthropocene (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022) 156 pp. $120 Hb. $35 Pb. ISBN: 9781786614162 The definition of the Anthropocene as causing the lasting transformation of the Earth presents us with an inherent contradiction. Proponents of viewing the Anthropocene as our current geological epoch argue that through our…