Category: Romantic and Victorian
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Bailes, Melissa, Regenerating Romanticism: Botany, Sensibility, and Originality in British Literature, 1750-1830
Melissa Bailes, Regenerating Romanticism: Botany, Sensibility, and Originality in British Literature, 1750-1830 (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023) 282 pp. $115.00 Hb. $32.50 Pb. ISBN: 9780813949406 Melissa Bailes’s Regenerating Romanticism: Botany, Sensibility, and Originality in British Literature, 1750-1830 makes an important intervention in Romantic studies by calling into question the truism that Romantic poets rejected…
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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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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…
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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…
