Category: Reviews
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Auyoung, Elaine, When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind
Elaine Auyoung, When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), 164 pp. £68.00 Hb. £14.99 Pb. ISBN: 9780190845476 It is a well-known fact that realist novels are characterized by their verisimilitude. In When Fiction Feels Real, Elaine Auyoung sets out to explore some of the ways these texts achieve this and how they put readers ‘into relation with fictional…
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Matthews, Paul, Transparent Minds in Science Fiction: An Introduction to Alien, AI and Post-Human Consciousness
Paul Matthews, Transparent Minds in Science Fiction: An Introduction to Alien, AI and Post-Human Consciousness (Open Book Publishers, 2023), 144 pp. £28.95 Hb. £16.95 Pb. ISBN: 978-1-80511-046-0 (Hb) This short book will be useful to those wanting to know more about non-human consciousnesses in Science Fiction novels. Written by a Computer Science lecturer, there are…
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Schöberlein, Stefan, Writing the Brain: Material Minds and Literature, 1800–1880
Stefan Schöberlein, Writing the Brain: Material Minds and Literature, 1800–1880 (Oxford: Oxford: University Press, 2023), 280 pp. $83.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780197693681 Stefan Schöberlein’s Writing the Brain examines the ‘first century of the brain’ in nineteenth-century English and American literature. In the century preceding neuroscience’s absolute claim on the brain as an object of study, the…
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Murray, Stuart, Medical Humanities and Disability Studies: In/Disciplines
Stuart Murray, Medical Humanities and Disability Studies: In/Disciplines (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), 144 pp. £40.50 Hb. £13.49 Pb. £10.79 E-book. ISBN: 9781350172180 ‘Diagnosis and prognosis are moments that are full of words’, writes Stuart Murray, in his new monograph, Medical Humanities and Disability Studies: In/Disciplines: ‘they might be comforting, terrifying or mystifying’ (6). In his…
