Category: Romantic and Victorian
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Chez, Keridiana W., Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Keridiana W. Chez, Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2017) 212 pp. 4 illustrations. $69.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780814213346. This study explores how transatlantic novels of the nineteenth and early twentieth century portrayed the dog, in various representations and subjectivities, as an interspecies prosthesis…
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Thornton, Amara, Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People
Amara Thornton, Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People (London: UCL Press, 2018) 312pp. £40.00 Hb. ISBN: 978‑1‑78735‑259‑9 £20.00 Pb ISBN: 978‑1‑78735‑258‑2 Free Open Access ISBN: 978‑1‑78735‑257‑5. Amara Thornton’s Archaeologists and Print: Publishing for the People (2018) examines the intricate and nuanced relationship between archaeologists and publishers in the late nineteenth and twentieth century. Acknowledging…
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Axelrod-Sokolov, Mark, Madness in Fiction: Literary Essays from Poe to Fowles
Mark Axelrod-Sokolov, Madness in Fiction: Literary Essays from Poe to Fowles (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) 98 pp. £45.99 Hb. ISBN: 9783319705200 Literature has always been interested in representing Madness. The list of texts dealing with the issue is nearly endless, ranging from Euripides to Chekov, from Don Quixote to The Yellow Wallpaper. This topic has been…
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Pratt-Smith, Stella, Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
Stella Pratt-Smith, Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science (Farnham: Ashgate, 2016) 176 pp. 9 B&W illustrations. £125.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781472419408 This book considers the literary representations and potential applications of electricity, as explored in British canonical, popular, and scientific works of the nineteenth century. Stella Pratt-Smith analyses the development of various theoretical and…
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Adelman, Richard, Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815-1900
Richard Adelman, Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 248 pp. $84.00 PDF. £75.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781108424134 Richard Adelman’s Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900 is the second volume in a project concerned with the fraught relation between the concepts of labour and aesthetic contemplation in British literature, cultural theory, and political economy.…
