Category: Reviews
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Menely, Tobias, The Animal Claim: Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice
Tobias Menely, The Animal Claim: Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2015) 267 pp. $30.00 Pb. $90.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780226239392 In The Animal Claim, Tobias Menely does something unusual: he shows that eighteenth-century high poetry is a matter of imminent relevance beyond the rarefied field of eighteenth-century studies. This is impressive…
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Seamon, John, Memory and Movies: What Films Can Teach Us about Memory
John Seamon, Memory and Movies: What Films Can Teach Us about Memory (Cambridge MA: MIT Press 2015) 272 pp. $21.95 ePub, PDF, $30.95 Hb. ISBN: 9780262029711 From psychoanalysis to ecocriticism, commentators of various theoretical hues have attempted to marry scientific discourse and film studies. However, critical discussions that use neuroscience and cinema in concert are…
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Middleton, Peter, Physics Envy: American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After
Peter Middleton, Physics Envy: American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After (University of Chicago Press 2015) 272 pp. $45 Hb. ISBN: 9780226290003 Peter Middleton’s most recent book Physics Envy: American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After charts a compelling map of the evolution of a literary engagement with science…
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Rose, Hilary and Steven Rose, Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds?
Hilary Rose and Steven Rose, Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds? (Cambridge: Polity Press 2016) 170 pp. £35.00 Hb, £9.99 Pb. ISBN: 9780745689319 The equivocal title of this short book by Emerita Professor of Social Policy Hilary Rose and Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience Steven Rose is admittedly ‘a restatement of our overall perspective on the mutual…
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Ramachandran, Ayesha, The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe
Ayesha Ramachandran, The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2015) 312 pp. $45.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780226288796 In The Worldmakers Ayesha Ramachandran takes readers into many worlds, both of her own making and those imagined by the eponymous ‘worldmakers’, a motley if erudite ensemble cast of mapmakers, anatomists, essayists, poets,…
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Frederickson, Kathleen, The Ploy of Instinct: Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance (New York: Fordham University Press 2014)
Kathleen Frederickson, The Ploy of Instinct: Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance (New York: Fordham University Press 2014) 236pp. $75 Hb, $26 Pb. ISBN: 9780823262526 Kathleen Frederickson’s The Ploy of Instinct: Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance is a dexterous negotiation of Victorian ‘instinct’ both as an impetus for progress…
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Wallraven, Miriam, Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture: Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches
Miriam Wallraven, Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture: Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches (New York: Routledge 2015) 236 pp. £95 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-138-82418-8 In Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture: Female Lucifers, Priestesses and Witches Miriam Wallraven investigates the ‘epistemological triad’ of interrelationships between occultism, gender and text –…
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Kaiser, David and W Patrick McCray (eds), Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation and American Counterculture
David Kaiser and W Patrick McCray, eds, Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation and American Counterculture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2016) 416 pp. $25.00 Pb, $75.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780226372884 Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation and American Counterculture examines the boom of American scientific and technological advancement between the late 1960s and the early 1980s. However, rather than…
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Fulton, Richard D and Peter H Hoffenberg (eds), Oceania and the Victorian Imagination: Where All Things Are Possible
Richard D Fulton and Peter H Hoffenberg, eds, Oceania and the Victorian Imagination: Where All Things Are Possible (Oxford: Routledge 2013) 220 pp. £34.99 Pb, £100.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-1138249417 In their thoughtful introduction to this wide-ranging volume of essays, Richard Fulton and Peter Hoffenberg set the stage for the blurry boundaries of Pacific Islands in…
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Klancher, Jon, Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age
Jon Klancher, Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013) x + 307 pp. £19.99 Pb , EPUB £18.99, £62 Hb. ISBN: 9781107029101 Jon Klancher’s analysis of Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age turns on something of a paradox: that institutions invented by the…
