Category: Reviews
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Hearn, Lafcadio, Insect Literature
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…
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Hall, Alice (ed), Contemporary Literature and the Body: A Critical Introduction
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’,…
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Johns-Putra, Adeline and Kelly Sultzbach (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate
Adeline Johns-Putra and Kelly Sultbach (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) 300 pp. £66.05 Hb. £22.99 Pb. ISBN: 978-1316512166 This authoritative and academically rigorous collection of essays offers valuable insight into the relationship between literature and climate change. It positions itself within a field of research which is…
