Category: Reviews
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Godfrey, Emelyne (ed), Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H G Wells and William Morris: Landscape and Space
Emelyne Godfrey (ed) Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H G Wells and William Morris: Landscape and Space (London: Palgrave 2016) £52.99 EPUB, PDF, £66.99 Hb. ISBN 978-1-137-52340-2 While the literary works of both William Morris and H G Wells are situated within a utopian tradition spanning from Thomas More and Plato’s Republic to…
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Morrisson, Mark S, Modernism, Science, and Technology
Mark S Morrisson, Modernism, Science, and Technology (London: Bloomsbury 2017) 192 pp. $23.00 EPUB, PDF, $29.95 Pb, $94.00 Hb. ISBN 9781474233415 Modernist studies have been at the forefront of the recent turn towards interdisciplinary research in literature and science. In Modernism, Science, and Technology (2017), Mark S Morrisson offers an illuminating overview of the field.…
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Kelley, Theresa M, Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture
Theresa M Kelley, Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2012) 400 pp. $58.00 EPUB MOBI PDF, $58.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781421407609 Theresa M. Kelley’s Clandestine Marriage is a triumphant piece of scholarship that not only offers impressive interdisciplinary coverage of its subject, but, importantly, reconsiders botany during the Romantic era…
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Richardson, Angelique (ed), After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind
Angelique Richardson (ed), After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind (Amsterdam: Rodopi 2013) xvi + 369 pp. €112.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-90-420-3747-2 ‘After Darwin, something changed,’ declares Angelique Richardson in her introduction to this wide-ranging and insightful book. ‘The disciplines, never far apart to begin with, were now brought into newly self-conscious dialogue.’ (4). The book…
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Coleman, Dermot, George Eliot and Money: Economics, Ethics and Literature
Dermot Coleman, George Eliot and Money: Economics, Ethics and Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014) vii + 226 pp. $20.00 PDF, £20.00 Pb, £57.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781107057210 Dermot Coleman introduces George Eliot and Money: Economics, Ethics and Literature with the reminder that history contains powerful lessons for those willing to heed them. Rather self-deprecatingly, he…
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Cole, Lucinda, Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740
Lucinda Cole, Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2016) 240 pp. Open access here, $39.00 Pb, $75.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-472-05295-0 The true merit of Lucinda Cole’s study lies in its ability to unravel some of the quite subtle constituents of how ‘the human’ is defined.…
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Huston, Joseph P and Marcos Nadal and Francisco Mora and Luigi F Agnati and Camilo J Cela-Conde (eds), Art, Aesthetics and the Brain
Joseph P Huston, Marcos Nadal, Francisco Mora, Luigi F Agnati and Camilo J Cela-Conde (eds) Art, Aesthetics and the Brain (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015) 545 pp. £95 Hb. ISBN: 9780199670000 In the Preface to Art, Aesthetics and the Brain its editors boldly declare that ‘art is understandable in scientific terms.’ (v) Art and aesthetics…
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Ingram, Allan and Leigh Wetherall Dickson (eds), Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Fashioning the Unfashionable
Allan Ingram and Leigh Wetherall Dickson, eds, Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Fashioning the Unfashionable (London: Palgrave 2016) 290pp. £66.99 Hb. ISBN: 9781137597182 Based on the findings of their Leverhulme Trust-funded ‘Fashionable Diseases’ research project, the editors of and contributors to Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture explore the fascinating…
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Eklund, Hillary (ed), Ground-Work: English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science
Hillary Eklund, ed, Ground-Work: English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science (PIttsburgh: Duquesne University Press 2017) 330 pp. $70.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-8207-0499-9 How often do we pay attention to the detritus below our feet? How frequently do we consider the materiality and deep metaphorical reservoirs of the earth upon which we walk? If these questions evoke…
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Rieder, John, Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System
John Rieder, Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2017) viii + 208 pp. $22.95 Pb, $75.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-8195-7715-3 Rieder’s thesis in this innovative approach to the history of what we understand to be science fiction is that ‘it is an organic genre of the mass cultural genre system’…
