Tag: 2013
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Dick, Alexander, Romanticism and the Gold Standard: Money, Literature and Economic Debate in Britain 1790-1830
Alexander Dick, Romanticism and the Gold Standard: Money, Literature and Economic Debate in Britain 1790-1830 (Houndmills: Palgrave 2013). 280 pp. £55 Hb, EPub, PDF. ISBN 978-1-137-29293-3 Until recently, scholarship on Romanticism’s relationship with economic and monetary issues has only scantly been addressed, since it has been considered a topic with which the Romantics themselves had…
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Bourcier, Simon de, Pynchon and Relativity: Narrative Time in Thomas Pynchon’s Later Novels
Simon de Bourcier, Pynchon and Relativity: Narrative Time in Thomas Pynchon’s Later Novels. Continuum Literary Studies, (Bloomsbury: London 2013). 240pp. Hb £45.50, Pb £13.99. ISBN: 978-1441130099 Simon de Bourcier’s study sets out to provide a substantial and exhaustive scientific reading of Thomas Pynchon’s late-career novels, in particular Against the Day and Mason & Dixon. Within the active…
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Priestman, Martin, The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times
Martin Priestman, The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times(Farnham: Ashgate, 2013). xiv + 310 pp. £70 Hb. ISBN 978-1-4724-1954-5. Erasmus Darwin was a successful doctor, inventor, scientist and poet, a vast man with an even vaster range of interests and capabilities once described by Coleridge as ‘the first literary character in Europe’ (quoted…
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Miller, Sean, Strung Together: The Cultural Currency of String Theory as a Scientific Imaginary
Sean Miller, Strung Together: The Cultural Currency of String Theory as a Scientific Imaginary (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2013), 256pp. $50. ISBN 978-0-472-11866-3. O dieses ist das Tier, das es nicht gibt. Sie wußtens nicht und habens jeden Falls – sein Wandeln, seine Haltung, seinen Hals, bis in des stillen Blickes…
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Ward, David, Coleridge and the Nature of Imagination: Evolution, Engagement with the World, and Poetry
David Ward, Coleridge and the Nature of Imagination: Evolution, Engagement with the World, and Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) David Ward’s approach to reading Coleridge through the ‘sciences of the brain’ (vii) yields a valuable contribution to scholarship on the Imagination in Coleridge’s poetry, with close readings of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, ‘Kubla Khan’…
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Marsden, Ben and Hazel Hutchison and Ralph O’Connor (eds), Uncommon Contexts: Encounters Between Science and Literature, 1800-1914
Marsden, Ben, Hazel Hutchison and Ralph O’Connor, eds. Uncommon Contexts: Encounters Between Science and Literature, 1800-1914. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. 256pp £60 HB ISBN 978-1-84893-362-0 In his introduction, Ben Marsden frames Uncommon Contexts as a rejection of C.P. Snow’s dichotomy between the ‘two cultures’ of literature and science. Marsden’s objective in this collection is to cut across…
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Miert, Dirk van (ed), Communicating Observations in Early Modern Letters (1500-1675): Epistolography and Epistemology in the Age of the Scientific Revolution
Dirk van Miert (ed.), Communicating Observations in Early Modern Letters (1500-1675): Epistolography and Epistemology in the Age of the Scientific Revolution, Warburg Institute Colloquia 23 (London and Turin: The Warburg Institute and Nino Aragno Editore, 2013), 289 pp. £50 pb. ISBN 9781908590466. This volume—based on a colloquium held at the Warburg Institute, London, in…
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Malcolmson, Cristina, Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society
Cristina Malcolmson, Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society: Boyle, Cavendish, Swift (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), xii + 233pp. £54.00. ISBN: 978-0-7546-3778-3. BSLS members are entitled to a 20% discount on Ashgate titles. Click here for details. This absorbing monograph seeks to re-locate the origins of scientific racism to the late seventeenth century, showing…
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Buckland, Adelene, Novel Science
Adelene Buckland, Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013). 400pp. £31.50 Hb. ISBN 9780226079684. Geology took on huge popularity in nineteenth-century Britain. Men and women of many backgrounds – miners and middle-class ladies as well as more gentlemanly scientific types – ventured out with hammers to find geological…
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Hanson, Clare, Eugenics, Literature and Culture in Post-war Britain
Clare Hanson, Eugenics, Literature and Culture in Post-War Britain (New York: Routledge, 2013). 190pp. HB £85.00. ISBN 9780415806985. Eugenics is frequently invoked in discussions of contemporary biomedicine and biotechnologies. Whether arguing that post-genomic biology provides opportunities for eugenics to re-emerge (as Troy Duster does), or that contemporary biopolitics is utterly dissimilar to the biopolitical strategies…
