Tag: 2011
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Levine, George, Darwin the Writer
George Levine, Darwin the Writer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) xvii+272pp. £19.99 hb ISBN 9780199608420 BSLS members are entitled to a 20% discount on academic titles published by Oxford University Press. Click here for details. All of the world is a rastro, Darwinian eyes will trace it, Darwinian exuberance and wonder precede and follow from it. (217) The…
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Bruckner, Lynne and Daniel Brayton (eds), Ecocritical Shakespeare
Lynne Bruckner and Daniel Brayton (eds), Ecocritical Shakespeare (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011). 280 pp. £55 hb. ISBN 978-0-7546-6919-7. (BSLS members receive a discount on all Ashgate titles) Ecocritical Shakespeare is a volume of 13 essays that explores both an ecocritical reading of Shakespeare and a Shakespearean redefinition of ecocriticism by locating and analyzing environmental and ecopolitical…
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Marchitello, Howard, The Machine in the Text: Science and Literature in the Age of Shakespeare and Galileo
Howard Marchitello, The Machine in the Text: Science and literature in the Age of Shakespeare and Galileo (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 236 pp, £55 hb, ISBN 978-0-19-960805-8. The phrase ‘the two cultures’ has become a somewhat lazy shorthand for a supposed philosophical division between those who seek to understand the world largely through the…
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Colligan, Colette and Margaret Linley (eds), Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century and Alex Goody, Technology, Literature and Culture
Colette Colligan and Margaret Linley, eds., Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century: Image, Sound, Touch. The Nineteenth Century (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), 302 pp. £ 60.00 hb. ISBN 978-1-4094-0009-7. Alex Goody, Technology, Literature and Culture. Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature and Culture (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011), 193 pp. £ 15.99 pb. ISBN…
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Bould, Mark and Sherryl Vint, The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction
Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint, The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction (London: Routledge, 2011), xi + 247pp. £15.99 pb. ISBN 9780415435710 If Literature and Science may be said to have such a thing as a ‘project’, then Science Fiction’s place in it remains unclear: on the one hand, the very name ‘Science Fiction’ seems…
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Budd, Adam (ed), John Armstrong’s ‘The Art of Preserving Health’
Adam Budd (ed.), John Armstrong’s ‘The Art of Preserving Health’: Eighteenth-Century Sensibility in Practice (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), xxii + 302 pp. £65.00 hb. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6306-5. (BSLS members receive a discount on all Ashgate titles) Dr Adam Budd has provided a critical edition of John Armstrong’s 1,700-line four-book poem, The Art of Preserving Health (1744), complete…
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Crossley, Robert, Imagining Mars
Robert Crossley, Imagining Mars: A Literary History (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2011). xvii + 353 pp. £34.95. ISBN 978-0-8195-6927-1. Robert Crossley begins his literary history of Mars with a trip to the Clark telescope at Wellesley College during the opposition of 2003. At a time when our neighbouring planet was closer to Earth than…
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Wallwork, Jo and Paul Salzman (eds), Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas
Jo Wallwork and Paul Salzman (eds), Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas (Burlington and Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2011), 158 pp. £50 hb. ISBN: 978 1 4094 1969 3. (BSLS members receive a discount on all Ashgate titles) Jo Wallwork and Paul Salzman’s Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas is a collection of essays about how women writers from…
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Fleming, James Dougal (ed), The Invention of Discovery, 1500-1700
James Dougal Fleming (ed), The Invention of Discovery, 1500-1700 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), 228 pp. £55. ISBN 978-0-7546-6841-1. This collection aims to provoke a variety of eponymous discoveries and inventions about meanings held by the book’s keywords in the early modern world. In so doing it raises questions not only about the salience of these concepts…
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Paul, Harry W., Henri de Rothschild, 1872-1947: Medicine and Theater
Harry W. Paul, Henri de Rothschild, 1872-1947: Medicine and Theater (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), 322 pp. £70 hb. ISBN 978-1-4094-0515-3. (BSLS members receive a discount on all Ashgate titles) As the subtitle of this meticulously researched biography indicates, there was much more to the Rothschilds than wine and banking. Henri de Rothschild, the great-grandson of the…
