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…
