Category: Reviews
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Calvin, Ritch, Feminist Science Fiction and Feminist Epistemology: Four Modes
Ritch Calvin, Feminist Science Fiction and Feminist Epistemology: Four Modes (London: Palgrave 2016) £52.99 EPUB, PDF, £66.99 Hb. ISBN: 978-3-319-32469-2 In Feminist Science Fiction and Feminist Epistemology: Four Modes, Ritch Calvin identifies epistemology as ‘the foundation of, and central to, the question of feminist analysis’ (2), and more specifically, as it pertains to feminist science…
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Barnard, Teresa (ed), British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century
Teresa Barnard (ed.), British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Routledge 2015) xviii + 194 pp. £70.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781472437457 This collection of nine essays is divided into three thematic sections dealing with the sciences, religion, and radical politics. The book aims, as stated in Teresa Barnard and Ruth Watts’s…
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Holmes, John and Sharon Ruston (eds), The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science
John Holmes and Sharon Ruston (eds), The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science (London: Routledge 2017) 465 pp. £27.99 eBook, £165.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781472429872 Given that the Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science brings together the ‘usual suspects’ from the period’s shifting fields of science (Darwin, Davy, Huxley, Tyndall)…
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Fleming, J D, The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England: John Wilkins and the Universal Character
J D Fleming, The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England: John Wilkins and the Universal Character (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2017) xi + 292 pp. £74.50 Hb. ISBN 978-3-319-40300-7 Known in the United States as ‘Telephone’, in the UK as ‘Chinese Whispers’, and in France as ‘Téléphone Arabe’ the children’s game of passing from one…
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Bristow, Tom, The Anthropocene Lyric: an Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place
Tom Bristow, The Anthropocene Lyric: an Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2015) ix + 139 pp., £45.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-137-36474-6 ‘The making of place as a dynamic of couplings, as if love and trust are omens, odds in your favour.’ John Kinsella, Jam Tree Gully…
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Burke, Peter, What Is the History of Knowledge?
Peter Burke, What Is the History of Knowledge? (Cambridge: Polity Press 2016) 160 pp. $19.95 Pb, $59.95 Hb. ISBN: 9780745669830 Peter Burke is Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge, and has published a large number of books on cultural and intellectual history. What Is the History of Knowledge? is one of…
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Erickson, Paul, The World The Game Theorists Made
Paul Erickson, The World The Game Theorists Made (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2015) 390pp. $ 35.00 Pb, $105.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780226097176 In Robert Coover’s lamentably obscure 1968 novel, The Universal Baseball Association, J Henry Waugh, Prop., a socially-retiring accountant becomes increasingly absorbed into the private world of his fantasy baseball league. Each night after…
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Pollatsek, Alexander and Rebecca Treiman (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Reading
Alexander Pollatsek and Rebecca Treiman (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Reading (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015) 520 pp. £132.50 Hb. ISBN: 9780199324576 The aim of The Oxford Handbook of Reading, which is edited by Alexander Pollatsek and Rebecca Treiman and belongs to the larger Oxford Library of Psychology series, is to explore research into ‘how…
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Beck, Ulrich, The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change Is Transforming Our Concept of the World
Ulrich Beck, The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change Is Transforming Our Concept of the World (Cambridge: Polity 2016) 200pp. £14.99 Hb. ISBN: 987-0-7456-9021-6 Ulrich Beck’s study sets out to provide a comprehensive outlook on the nature of the contemporary world. In his The Metamorphosis of the World (2016), Beck explores his mature thoughts…
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Peakman, Julie, Amatory Pleasures: Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture
Julie Peakman, Amatory Pleasures: Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture (London: Bloomsbury 2016) 240 pp. £21.99 Pb. ISBN: 9781474226448 Amatory Pleasures is a collection of articles written by Julie Peakman, which seeks to investigate how sex and the sexualised body were constructed in the eighteenth-century imagination. Using samples of the written word (as well as illustration…
