Category: Reviews
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Olszynko-Gryn, Jesse and Patrick Ellis (eds), The British Journal for the History of Science, Special Issue: Reproduction on Film
Jesse Olszynko-Gryn and Patrick Ellis (eds), The British Journal for the History of Science, Special Issue: Reproduction on Film, 50.186 (September 2017), 150 pp. ISSN: 0007-0874 This special issue offers a new perspective on reproductive film through exploring the convergence of biological and mechanical reproduction, asking ‘How did reproduction shape film and vice versa?’ (386).…
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Chez, Keridiana W., Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Keridiana W. Chez, Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2017) 212 pp. 4 illustrations. $69.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780814213346. This study explores how transatlantic novels of the nineteenth and early twentieth century portrayed the dog, in various representations and subjectivities, as an interspecies prosthesis…
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Smith, Andrew and William Hughes (eds), Ecogothic
Ecogothic (International Gothic Series), Andrew Smith and William Hughes (eds), (Manchester: Manchester University Press, reprinted 2016) 216 pp. £44.55 Hb. £19.19 Kindle. ISBN: 1526106892. Ecogothic’s claim that it is the “first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas” is an ambitious but well-founded one. Published first in 2013, it has since been followed…
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Thornton, Amara, Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People
Amara Thornton, Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People (London: UCL Press, 2018) 312pp. £40.00 Hb. ISBN: 978‑1‑78735‑259‑9 £20.00 Pb ISBN: 978‑1‑78735‑258‑2 Free Open Access ISBN: 978‑1‑78735‑257‑5. Amara Thornton’s Archaeologists and Print: Publishing for the People (2018) examines the intricate and nuanced relationship between archaeologists and publishers in the late nineteenth and twentieth century. Acknowledging…
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Laroche, Rebecca and Jennifer Munroe, Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory
Rebecca Laroche and Jennifer Munroe, Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory (London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2017) 216 pp. £75.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781472590473. Ecofeminism has emerged as a relatively new feminist theory as part of third-wave feminism. Ecofeminist literary criticism ‘redress[es] inequalities that result not only from dominations that subject women…Others..and non-humans to destructive pratices’ (xvii). Such readings…
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Drury, Joseph, Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain
Joseph Drury, Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) 269 pp. £60 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-19-879238-3 In a book that considers how the novel functions as a machine, it is comforting to find an approach which leaves programmatic thinking far behind. In Novel Machines, Joseph Drury employs a set…
