Category: Reviews
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Morton, Timothy, Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence
Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (New York: Columbia University Press) 2016) xii + 191 pp. $30.00 Hb. ISBN 978-0-231-17752-8 Drawn from his 2015 series of Wellek lectures, Timothy Morton’s new work by turns fascinates, mystifies, stuns, confuses, and excites. Readers who seek new vocabularies for thinking about the Anthropocene and…
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Ford, Jane and Kim Edwards Keates and Patricia Pulham (eds), Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Libidinal Lives
Jane Ford, Kim Edwards Keates, and Patricia Pulham (eds), Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Libidinal Lives (Oxford: Routledge 2016) 214 pp. £110.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781138826342 This invigorating collection asserts itself as ‘the first sustained study to interrogate how and why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect in the literature…
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Pardo, Michael S. and Dennis Patterson, Minds, Brains, and Law: The Conceptual Foundations of Law and Neuroscience
Michael S. Pardo and Dennis Patterson, Minds, Brains, and Law: The Conceptual Foundations of Law and Neuroscience (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015) 276 pp. £16.99 Pb, £59.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780190253103 Recent developments in neuroscience offer new approaches to a plethora of complex challenges surrounding debates about legal responsibility. Medical and legal professionals are engaged in…
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Sultzbach, Kelly, Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination: Forster, Woolf, and Auden
Kelly Sultzbach, Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination: Forster, Woolf, and Auden (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2016) 250 pp. £80.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781107161412 In Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination, Kelly Sultzbach seeks to trace and elucidate the development of a modernist environmental consciousness. The author begins by attempting to answer a problem posed through the ending…
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Cassata, Francesco, Building the New Man: Eugenics, Racial Science and Genetics in Twentieth-Century Italy
Francesco Cassata, Building the New Man: Eugenics, Racial Science and Genetics in Twentieth-Century Italy, trans Erin O’Loughlin (Budapest: Central European University Press 2011) 438 pp. €44.95 Hb. ISBN: 978-963-9776-83-8 Cassata’s study of the national specificity of Italian eugenics is an elegant, original, and well-researched contribution to the ongoing transnational mapping of European and international eugenics.…
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Murray, Alex, Landscapes of Decadence: Literature and Place at the Fin de Siècle
Alex Murray, Landscapes of Decadence: Literature and Place at the Fin de Siècle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2016) 235 pp. $80.00 PDF, £75.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-107-16966-1 Alex Murray’s Landscapes of Decadence considers the intersection between landscape, location and identity in the Decadent fin de siècle. Beginning with a reading of Arthur Symons’s impressionistic poem ‘At…
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Daly, Nicholas, The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City : Paris, London, New York
Nicholas Daly, The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City : Paris, London, New York (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2015) 272 pp. £22.99 Pb., $78.00 PDF, £62.00 Hb. ISBN : 978-1-107-09559-5 While the significance of nineteenth-century urbanization is well recognized, Nicholas Daly’s new book explores the larger, though related, issue of demographic change over the…
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Ryan, Marie-Laure, Narrative as Virtual Reality 2: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media
Marie-Laure Ryan, Narrative as Virtual Reality 2: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2015) 291pp. $34.95 Pb. ISBN: 978-1-4241-1797-4 Narrative as Virtual Reality was first published in 2001, the same year as the original Xbox console, three years before Facebook, and well before the Oculus Rift finally…
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Rylance, Rick, Literature and the Public Good
Rick Rylance, Literature and the Public Good (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016) 240pp. £14.99 Pb. ISBN: 9780199654390 Rick Rylance’s Literature and the Public Good is a monograph in Oxford’s The Literary Agenda series which seeks to investigate the state of literary studies in education and demonstrate the worth of studying literature within the wider world.…
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Ghosh, Amitav, The Great Derangement. Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement. Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press 2016) 196 pp. $15.00 Pb, $22.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-0226323039 Considering current political and scientific debates, the topic of the latest book by acclaimed Indian writer Amitav Ghosh could not be timelier. The Great Derangement, a relatively small volume…
