Tag: 2010
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Liu, Lydia H., The Freudian Robot
Lydia H. Liu, The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 302pp. £15.50 pb. ISBN 978-0-226-48683-3. What is the most powerful and widespread language in the world today? Is it English? Mandarin? Lydia Liu would probably argue that it is not one specific tongue, but the…
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Sleigh, Charlotte, Literature and Science
Charlotte Sleigh, Literature and Science, Outlining Literature Series (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). 232 pp. £16.99 pb. ISBN: 9780230218178. Charlotte Sleigh’s book Literature and Science, published in Palgrave Macmillan’s Outlining Literature Series, offers a valuable new take on the history of the mutually responsive relationship between scientific and literary cultures in the last three hundred years.…
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Barnett, Ryan and Serena Trowbridge (eds), Acts of Memory: The Victorians and Beyond
Ryan Barnett and Serena Trowbridge (eds), Acts of Memory: The Victorians and Beyond (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), 169pp. £34.99 pb. ISBN 978-1-4438-2567-2. As Ryan Barnett and Serena Trowbridge point out in their introduction to Acts of Memory: The Victorians and Beyond, the discourse of memory permeates the literature of the Victorian period. Memory does not…
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Kennedy, Meegan, Revising the Clinic
Meegan Kennedy, Revising the Clinic: Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010), 261 pp. $39.95 hb ISBN 978-0-8142-1116-8 Meegan Kennedy’s first book, Revising the Clinic: Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel, offers a head-on and provocative exploration into how Victorian medical practitioners…
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Vaught, Jennifer C. (ed), Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England
Jennifer C. Vaught (ed.), Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010), xv + 243 pp. £55. ISBN 9780754669487 (hbk); ISBN 9780754697121 (ebk). (BSLS members receive a discount on all Ashgate titles) Jennifer Vaught is to be congratulated on producing a fascinating, well-coordinated collection of essays by authors…
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Gold, Barri J., ThermoPoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science
Barri J. Gold, ThermoPoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010) 336 pp. £22.95 hb. ISBN 978-0-262-01372-7 Thermodynamics is the only area of the physical sciences that has received more than occasional attention from studies of Victorian literature and science, where the focus has more commonly been on biology, geology and…
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Jones, Jeanette Eileen and Patrick B. Sharp (eds), Darwin in Atlantic Cultures
Jeanette Eileen Jones and Patrick B. Sharp (eds), Darwin in Atlantic Cultures: Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality (New York and London: Routledge, 2010), 305 pp. £85 hb. ISBN 978-0-415-87234-8. Darwin in Atlantic Cultures offers a collection of essays valuable to the reader interested in “the reach of the Darwinist episteme” (1) generally and to those…
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Hodgkin, Katherine (ed), Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England: The Autobiographical Writings of Dionys Fitzherbert
Katherine Hodgkin (ed.), Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England: The Autobiographical Writings of Dionys Fitzherbert (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010). 290pp. £65.00hb. ISBN 978-0-7546-3018-0. (BSLS members receive a discount on all Ashgate titles) In Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England, Katherine Hodgkin explores the complex relationship between religion and madness and the early…
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Smajić, Srdjan, Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists, and Jill Galvan, The Sympathetic Medium
Srdjan Smajić, Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists: Theories of Vision in Victorian Literature and Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). 262pp. £50 hb. ISBN 9780521191883. Jill Galvan, The Sympathetic Medium: Feminine Channeling, The Occult, and Communication Technologies, 1859-1919 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010). 216pp. £27.95hb. ISBN 9780801448010. The obvious connection between Smajić’s Ghost-Seers and Galvan’s Sympathetic Medium is…
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Clarke, Bruce and Manuela Rossini (eds), The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science
Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini (eds), The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science (London and New York: Routledge, 2010 [dated 2011]), 550pp. Hb £125.00. ISBN 978-0-415-49525-7. In reviewing The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science, I find myself faced with the challenge of how to discuss a book that, while difficult to get into, becomes…
