Category: Reviews
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Jameson, Conor Mark, Finding W. H. Hudson: The Writer Who Came to Britain to Save the Birds
Conor Mark Jameson, Finding W. H. Hudson: The Writer Who Came to Britain to Save the Birds (London: Pelagic Publishing, 1923), 360 pp. £17.99 Pb. ISBN: 9781784273286 It is almost a given that any review or essay (and there is precious few of either) of the work of W. H. Hudson (1841-1922) will lament the…
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Powell, Rosalind, Perception and Analogy: Poetry, Science, and Religion in the Eighteenth Century
Rosalind Powell, Perception and Analogy: Poetry, Science, and Religion in the Eighteenth Century (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021) viii + 296 pp. £85.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-5261-5704-1 The eighteenth century witnessed the profound impact of natural philosophy on every facet of cultural expression. Rosalind Powell’s monograph, Perception and Analogy: Poetry, Science, and Religion in the Eighteenth…
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Campos, Liliane and Pierre-Louis Patoine (eds), Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in 21st-Century Literature and Performance
Liliane Campos and Pierre-Louis Patoine (eds.), Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in 21st-Century Literature and Performance (Open Book Publishers, 2022) xvi + 402. £31.41 Hb. £22.91 Pb. ISBN: 978-1-80064-750-3 We live in a world whose multiscalar entanglements can no longer be ignored: the climate crisis is more conspicuous than ever, while our agency and indeed…
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DeFalco, Amelia, Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care
This book gives all its key terms serious play in service of its exploration of ‘forms of care that resist […] human exceptionalism’ (26). Ranging through curiosity’s interest and strangeness, the biological connections and physical divisions of kin, fictions in several media, and a breathtaking array of posthumanist framings, to the combinations of feeling and…
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Habinek, Lianne, The Subtle Knot: Early Modern English Literature and the Birth of Neuroscience
Lianne Habinek, The Subtle Knot: Early Modern English Literature and the Birth of Neuroscience (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Press, 2018), 283 pp. $55 CAD Hb. ISBN: 9780773553187 Could it be like a book, a box, a womb, an engine, a maze, or a palace? Early modern writers experimented with multiple metaphors for the brain in the sixteenth…
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Pérez Edelman, Diana, Embryology and the Rise of The Gothic Novel
Diana Pérez Edelman, Embryology and the Rise of The Gothic Novel (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) pp.179, £109.99 Hb. £99.99 Pb. £79.50 ebook. ISBN: 978-3-030-73647-7 Diana Pérez Edelman’s study correlates the proto-scientific field of embryology with the genesis of the Gothic novel. Through a biological context, Edelman uncovers the scientific relationship between Gothic narratives and eighteenth-century…
