Category: Reviews
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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…
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Dittmer, Nicole C. and Sophie Raine (eds), Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic: Investigations of Pernicious Tales of Terror
Nicole C. Dittmer and Sophie Raine (eds), Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic: Investigations of Pernicious Tales of Terror, Gothic Literary Studies Series (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2023), 248 pp. £75 Hb. ISBN 9781786839701 In the introduction to Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic: Investigations of Pernicious Tales of Terror, Nicole Dittmer and Sophie Raine make…
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Hart, Sarah, Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
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…
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Grech, Marija, Spectrality and Survivance: Living the Anthropocene
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…
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Brown, Andy, The Tree Climbing Cure: Finding Wellbeing in Trees in European and North American Literature and Art
Andy Brown, The Tree Climbing Cure: Finding Wellbeing in Trees in European and North American Literature and Art (Environmental Cultures Series) (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2023) 225 pp. £65.00 Hb. £20.99 Pb. £15.99 Ebook. ISBN: 9781350327283 Being around trees is good for our mental health and wellbeing. Although this has long been known intuitively,…
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Zaretsky, Robert, Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague
Robert Zaretsky, Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022) 208 pp. $22.50 Cloth. ISBS: 9780226803494 Faced with lockdowns and isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic, Robert Zaretsky did what many people – especially those of us who work in the humanities – do in times…
