Tag: 2008

  • Armstrong, Isobel, Victorian Glassworlds

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    Monika Pietrzak-Franger

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    Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). viii + 450pp. £32 hb. ISBN 978-0-19-920520-2. In The Victorians and the Visual Imagination Kate Flint highlights Victorian fascination with the processes and technologies of seeing, with the functionalities of vision as well as with their parallels to the then prevalent modalities of…

  • Levine, George, Realism, Ethics and Secularism

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    John Holmes

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    George Levine, Realism, Ethics and Secularism: Essays on Victorian Literature and Science (Cambridge: CUP, 2008). ix+283 pp. £50 hb. ISBN 0-521-88526-3. In Realism, Ethics and Secularism, George Levine reaffirms once again his position as one of the most thoughtful and relevant critics working on literature and science over the last thirty years. (For my review…

  • Carroll, Victoria, Science and Eccentricity

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    Laurie Garrison

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    Victoria Carroll, Science and Eccentricity: Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008). 254 pp. £60 hb. ISBN 1851969403. Victoria Carroll’s Science and Eccentricity: Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences explores an astounding range of material from anecdotes about alligator wrestling to pastoral idylls about the…

  • Knellwolf, Christa and Jane Goodall (eds), Frankenstein’s Science

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    Tim Fulford

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    Frankenstein’s Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780-1830, ed. Christa Knellwolf and Jane Goodall (Aldershot and Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2008), xi + 225 pp. £55 hb. ISBN 978-0-7546-5447-6 (BSLS members receive a discount on all Ashgate titles) This welcome collection of essays rightly places its emphasis on the scientific contexts in which Frankenstein was…

  • Jacyna, L. S., Medicine and Modernism

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    Amanda Mordavsky Caleb

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    L. S. Jacyna, Medicine and Modernism: A Biography of Sir Henry Head, Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series, 6 (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008) 368 pp. £60 hb. ISBN 13: 978-1-85-196907-4 Students of the humanities and the sciences (and those who dare to cross the boundaries) are very familiar with the arguments regarding…

  • Mahood, M. M., The Poet as Botanist

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    C. M. Jackson-Houlston

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    M. M. Mahood, The Poet as Botanist (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). xi + 269 pp; 8 illustrations. £50.00 hb.  ISBN 978-0521862363. This eminently readable labour of love offers some of the serendipity of an anthology,  but with a structured critical focus.  The author is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Kent but…

  • Graham, Peter W., Jane Austen and Charles Darwin: Naturalists and Novelists

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    John Holmes

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    Peter W. Graham, Jane Austen and Charles Darwin: Naturalists and Novelists (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008). 214 pp. £50 hb. ISBN 978-0754658511. (BSLS members receive a discount on all Ashgate titles) In Jane Austen and Charles Darwin: Naturalists and Novelists, Peter W. Graham brings together two distinct trends in the study of literature and science. On the…

  • Ruston, Sharon (ed), Literature and Science

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    Laura Daniels

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    Sharon Ruston (ed.), Literature and Science. Vol. 61. Essays and Studies 2008. (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008). 188 pp. £30.00. ISBN 978-1843841784. Special offer: Order Literature and Science through the BSLS and receive a 25% discount. Just fill in this form (pdf) and send it to Boydell & Brewer to receive your discount. In his…

  • Brake, Mark L. and Neil Hook, Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science

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    Alistair Brown

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    Mark L. Brake and Neil Hook, Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science (Macmillan, 2008), 265pp. £16.99 hb. ISBN 978-0-230-01980-5. When Mark Brake and Neil Hook claim, in Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science, that Johannes Kepler’s Somnium had “grasped the bond between life forms and habitat” two centuries before…

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