Category: Modern and Contemporary

Claire Hanson, Gerri Kimber and Todd Martin (eds), Katherine Mansfield and Psychology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2016) 224 pp. £70 PDF, EPub, £70 Hb. ISBN: 9781474417532 Katherine Mansfield and Psychology explores the pre-Freudian psychological beliefs that influenced Mansfield’s writing while simultaneously engaging in retrospective readings with relation to post-Freudian theorists including Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan…

Peter Marks, Imagining Surveillance: Eutopian and Dystopian Literature and Film (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2015) £19.99 Pb, £70.00 PDF & EPUB, £70.00 Hb. ISBN 978-1-474-42655-8 Peter Marks’s Imagining Surveillance is an interdisciplinary attempt to illuminate the manifold connections between the humanities and social sciences, especially literary criticism and surveillance studies. He has a close look…

Rebecca P. Scales, Radio and the Politics of Sound in Interwar France, 1921–1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016) 304 pp. $80.00 PDF, £64.99 Hb., £24.99 Pb. ISBN: 9781107108677 Even though scholarly concerns with auditory developments are still largely marginal when compared with analysis of sight and reading – the sight paradigm continues to maintain an…

Matthew Griffiths, The New Poetics of Climate Change: Modernist Aesthetics for a Warming World  (London: Bloomsbury 2017) 224 pp. £80.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781474282093 Although it is well known that modernist literature did not engage widely in the early days of ecocriticism during the seventies, eighties and nineties, there is now a developed Modernist expression of…

Marlene Goldman, Forgotten: Narratives of Age-Related Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease in Canada (Montreal and Kingston ON: McGill-Queens University Press 2017) $34.95 Pb, $120 Hb. ISBN: 9780773550926 Deconstructing the myths that have transformed cognitive decline into a corrosive fantasy, Forgotten establishes the pivotal role that fictional and non-fictional narratives play in cultural interpretations of disease, news…

David Bradshaw, Laura Marcus, Rebecca Roach (eds), Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016) 336 pp. £55 Hb. ISBN: 9780198714170 The aim of this volume of essays, according to the introduction by Laura Marcus and David Bradshaw, is to ‘open up the many dimensions and arenas of modernist movement and movements:…

Mary K. DeShazer, Mammographies: The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2013) 239 pp. $33.95 Pb, $60 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-472-03635-6 In the early part of the twentieth century, breast cancer was a taboo subject, one which often induced hushed tones, superstition, or, most often, silence. In the 1970s, second…

Andrea Goulet, Legacies of the Rue Morgue (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2015) 251 pp. $65.00 Hb. ISBN 978-0-8122-4779-4 Legacies of the Rue Morgue takes the renowned Edgar Allan Poe tale ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ as a foundational framework and traces the developing representation of space, violence and state in French crime fiction,…

Caroline Crowley and Denis Linehan (eds), Spacing Ireland: Place, Society and Culture in a Post-Boom Era (Manchester: Manchester University Press 2013) 224 pp. £17.99 Pb. £75.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-7190-8679-3 The transformation of Ireland from a country with prosperity and rapid development to one undergoing a stark recession is the starting point for Spacing Ireland: Place,…

Daniel Morris, Not Born Digital: Poetics, Print Literacy, New Media (London: Bloomsbury 2016) 258pp. £88 Hb. ISBN: 9781501316708 A woman sitting next to me on the subway asked about the book that I was reading: ‘Is it good?’ I nodded.  ‘I mean, is it helpful, to people who were not born digital?’  I didn’t quite…