Tag: 2013
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Klancher, Jon, Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age
Jon Klancher, Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013) x + 307 pp. £19.99 Pb , EPUB £18.99, £62 Hb. ISBN: 9781107029101 Jon Klancher’s analysis of Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age turns on something of a paradox: that institutions invented by the…
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Bonikowski, Wyatt, Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction
Wyatt Bonikowski, Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction (Oxford: Routledge 2013) 200pp. £34.99 Pb, £100.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781409444176 Wyatt Bonikowski’s study, Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction, makes an extensive investigation of the understanding and representation of…
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DeWitt, Anne, Moral Authority, Men of Science and the Victorian Novel
Anne DeWitt, Moral Authority, Men of Science and the Victorian Novel (Cambridge; Cambridge University Press 2013) 290 pp. £62.00 Hb., £19.99 Pb., $24.00 PDF. ISBN: 9781107036178 The introduction to Anne DeWitt’s Moral Authority, Men of Science and the Victorian Novel proclaims that it will focus on ‘characters who practice or study science, fictional conversations about…
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Mucignat, Rosa, Realism and Space in the Novel, 1795-1869: Imagined Geographies
Rosa Mucignat, Realism and Space in the Novel, 1795-1869: Imagined Geographies (Oxford: Routledge 2013) 192 pp. £95.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781409450559 The title of Rosa Mucignat’s Realism and Space in the Novel 1795-1869: Imagined Geographies only palely suggests the nature of this careful, well documented, and very pertinent literary study. Mucignat’s book reflects the hybrid nature…
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Baxter, Jeannette and Valerie Henitiuk and Ben Hutchinson (eds), A Literature of Restitution. Critical Essays on W G Sebald
Jeannette Baxter, Valerie Henitiuk and Ben Hutchinson (eds), A Literature of Restitution. Critical Essays on W G Sebald (Manchester: Manchester University Press 2013) 320 pp. £70.00 Hb, £17.99 Pb. ISBN: 978-0-7190-8852-0 In the last essay of this book, ‘The Question of Genre in W G Sebald’s “Prose” (Towards a Post-Memorial Literature of Restitution)’, Russell Kilbourn…
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Purton, Valerie (ed), Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science
Valerie Purton (ed), Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science (New York and London: Anthem Press 2013) 192 pp. £70.00 Hb, £25.00 Pb. ISBN 9780857280763 The real author of Tennyson’s poems was in fact Charles Darwin; or so asserted Algernon Charles Swinburne in a spoof published in the Nineteenth Century in 1888.…
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Style, Daniel Brown. The Poetry of Victorian Scientists:, Science and Nonsense
Daniel Brown, The Poetry of Victorian Scientists: Style, Science and Nonsense (Cambridge University Press 2013) xii + 310 pp. Hb £59.99, Pb £18.99, PDF $24.00. ISBN 9781107023376 Daniel Brown’s The Poetry of Victorian Scientists begins with a counterintuitive premise: how does nonsense serve as a foundation for knowledge, allowing for the development of increasingly professional and…
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Armstrong, Paul B., How Literature Plays with the Brain
Paul B. Armstrong, How Literature Plays with the Brain (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013) xv+221 pp. Hb $49.95, Pb, EPub, Mobi, PDF $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1576-5 Although this study covers ground familiar to anyone conversant with scientific and/or humanist perspectives on such notions as empathy, de-familiarization or hermeneutics, Armstrong’s analysis – as suggested by the…
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Gottlieb, Evan and Juliet Shields (eds.), Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660–1830: From Local to Global
Gottlieb, Evan and Juliet Shields, (eds.) Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660–1830: From Local to Global (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013) 234 pp. £95.00 Hb, PDF, EPub. ISBN: 978-1-4724-0218-9. Although dedicated to British literary culture, this stimulating volume participates in a wider critical shift which looks beyond the nation-state towards varieties of local, trans-local, national,…
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Budge, Gavin, Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural: Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres, 1789-1852
Gavin Budge, Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural: Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres, 1789-1852 (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2013). viii + 295 pp. £63 Hb, EPUB, PDF. ISBN 978-0-230-23846-6 Literary critics and historians of medicine will learn much from Gavin Budge’s wide-ranging and erudite study, which argues that Romantic medicine influenced writers from Coleridge through Hazlitt to…
