Category: Reviews
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Cooper, Fred and Luna Dolezal and Arthur Rose, COVID-19 and Shame: Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK
Fred Cooper, Luna Dolezal, and Arthur Rose, COVID-19 and Shame: Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK (London: Bloomsbury, 2023) 160 pp. £40.50 Hb. £13.49 Pb. ISBN: 9781350283404 Finding its origins in the AHRC-funded research project, Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19, COVID-19 and Shame offers a concise and timely study of the…
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Brilmyer, S. Pearl, The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism
S. Pearl Brilmyer, The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022) 299 pp. £79.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780226815770 The Science of Character sets out to refute the traditional narrative of the rise of the novel as a ‘movement of character from inside to outside, surface to…
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Matz, Jesse, Modernist Time Ecology
Jesse Matz, Modernist Time Ecology (John’s Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2022), 230 pp. ISBN1421426994 Jesse Matz’s 2019 study, Modernist Time Ecology is a refreshing and poignant exploration into the temporally transformative qualities of modernist narratives. Inspired by the Tuzing Time Project, Matz expands the concept of an ‘ecology of time’, convincingly arguing for the extended…
