Category: Reviews
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Munro, Jennifer and Edward Geisweidt and Lynne Bruckner (eds), Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts: A Field Guide to Reading and Teaching
Jennifer Munro, Edward Geisweidt, and Lynne Bruckner, eds. Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts: A Field Guide to Reading and Teaching (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015). xx + 274pp. £58.50 Hb, £19.99 Pb, ePUB, PDF. ISBN 978-1-4724-1675-9 Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts is an ambitious and useful reevaluation of contemporary ecocritical and environmentalist practices in literary studies. Indeed,…
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Dick, Alexander, Romanticism and the Gold Standard: Money, Literature and Economic Debate in Britain 1790-1830
Alexander Dick, Romanticism and the Gold Standard: Money, Literature and Economic Debate in Britain 1790-1830 (Houndmills: Palgrave 2013). 280 pp. £55 Hb, EPub, PDF. ISBN 978-1-137-29293-3 Until recently, scholarship on Romanticism’s relationship with economic and monetary issues has only scantly been addressed, since it has been considered a topic with which the Romantics themselves had…
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Ours, Kathryn St., Where Science and Literature Meet: The Earthy Writing of Jean-Loup Trassard
Kathryn St. Ours, Where Science and Literature Meet: The Earthy Writing of Jean-Loup Trassard, (Oxford: Trueheart Academic, 2014), 200pp. £50.00 Hb, £7.99 E-Book. ISBN: 978-0-9573017-4-0 Kathryn St. Ours’s study of the work of Jean-Loup Trassard presents a scientifically-informed analysis of his fiction, nonfiction, and photography. This short book ambitiously pursues the receptivity of Trassard’s ‘earthy’…
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Youngquist, Paul, Cyberfiction: After the Future
Paul Youngquist, Cyberfiction: After the Future, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2010), 272 pp. Hb, PDF £68.00. ISBN: 978–0–230–62151–0 Paul Youngquist’s book Cyberfiction: After the Future attempts to describe new methods of creating futures in a world that is now post-future. Locating the end of the future at the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, Youngquist argues that…
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Matei-Chesnoiu, Monica, Re-imagining Western European Geography in English Renaissance Drama
Monica Matei-Chesnoiu, Re-imagining Western European Geography in English Renaissance Drama (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). 220 pp. £56 Hb, EPUB, PDF. ISBN 978-0-230-36630-5. Literary geography, or the study of connections between literary and geographic texts, has profited from extensive scholarly inquiry in the past decade. In line with this ‘spatial turn’ in research, scholars of early…
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Reeves, Eileen, Galileo’s Glassworks: the Telescope and the Mirror
Eileen Reeves, Galileo’s Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2008). 240 pp. $23.00 Hb. ISBN 978-0-6740-2667-4 In Galileo’s Glassworks, Eileen Reeves deftly reassesses the lapse between the invention of the telescope in Middleburg, September 1608 and the publication of Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) in Venice, March 1610. Mapping out the…
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Brothers, Dometa Wiegand, The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy: On All Sides Infinity
Dometa Wiegand Brothers, The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy: On All Sides Infinity (Palgrave 2015), Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print, 216pp. £55 hb. ISBN 978–1–137–47433–9. Jane Taylor’s 1806 poem “The Star,” better known today as the children’s verse “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” highlights the two central and interlocking themes of Dometa…
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Björkén-Nyberg, Cecilia, The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel
Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg, The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel (Ashgate, 2015) 222 pp. £60 hb, ebook PDF, ebook ePUB. ISBN: 978-1-4724-3998-7 In a book that showcases the player piano and the Edwardian novel—or ‘the democratisation of music through technology and the storage of musical experience in literature’, as the author, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg, explains—we are fascinated to…
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Capuano, Peter J., Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body
Peter J. Capuano, Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body (The University of Michigan Press, 2015). 340pp. ISBN 9780472121403 Descriptions of hands flood Victorian novels, and yet, until now, they have received minimal critical attention when compared to other organs (e.g., faces, brains, eyes, skulls, etc.). Their pervasiveness, according to Pete…
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Mousoutzanis, Aris, Fin-de-Siècle Fictions, 1890s/1990s: Apocalypse, Technoscience, Empire
Aris Mousoutzanis, Fin-de-Siѐcle Fictions, 1890s/1990s: Apocalypse, Technoscience, Empire (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) 258pp. £55.00 Hb.ISBN: 978-1-137-26365-0 In Fin-de-Siѐcle Fictions, 1890s/1990s: Apocalypse, Technoscience, Empire, Aris Mousoutzanis introduces a succinct and passionate examination of the ‘shifts in the relations between power and knowledge’ that register ‘in the popular cultural production’ of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries…
