Tag: 2014
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Vigarello, Georges, Le Sentiment de Soi. Histoire de la Perception du Corps
Georges Vigarello, Le Sentiment de soi. Histoire de la perception du corps (Éditions du Seuil, 2014) 336 pp. €.23.00 ISBN: 2020898942 Building upon his life-long corpus of work on the history of the body, Georges Vigarello’s Le Sentiment de soi offers a captivating historical account of the evolving perception of the human body from the…
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Jones, Colin, The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Colin Jones, The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014) 256 pp. £14.99 Pb, £22.99 Hb. ISBN: 9780198715818 In a particularly memorable anecdote in his The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth Century Paris, Colin Jones follows in the footsteps of scholars who have treated Louis XIV’s absolutism as an early form of ‘star…
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Luck, Chad, The Body of Property: Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession
Chad Luck, The Body of Property: Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession (New York: Fordham University Press 2014) 298 pp. $17.99 EPUB, $ 27.00 Pb,, $95.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780823263004 In this book the author touches upon a wealth of interconnected concepts including possession, space and anxiety in relation to the nature of ownership…
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Danta, Chris and Helen Groth (eds), Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and Science of the Mind
Chris Danta and Helen Groth (eds), Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and Science of the Mind 224 pp. (London: Bloomsbury 2014) £27.00 PDF. ISBN: 9781441102867 What is the current state of the cognitive turn in literary studies? Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and the Science of the Mind is a good example of an eclectic collection of essays about…
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Kornbluh, Anna, Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form
Anna Kornbluh, Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form (New York: Fordham University Press 2014) 232 pp. $50.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780823254972 As the world slowly recovered from the devastating financial crisis of 2008, accounts of the catastrophe reflexively blamed investors for recklessly abusing byzantine financial instruments culminating in global hysteria. While everyday market…
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Cleminson, Richard, Catholicism, Race and Empire: Eugenics in Portugal, 1900-1950
Richard Cleminson, Catholicism, Race and Empire: Eugenics in Portugal, 1900-1950 (Budapest: Central European University Press 2014) 350 pp. $60 Hb. (CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine, vol 5) ISSN: 2079-1119 A vast amount of research has been done on the twentieth-century eugenic movements that experienced a significant degree of institutionalisation in Germany, the…
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Coleman, Dermot, George Eliot and Money: Economics, Ethics and Literature
Dermot Coleman, George Eliot and Money: Economics, Ethics and Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014) vii + 226 pp. $20.00 PDF, £20.00 Pb, £57.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781107057210 Dermot Coleman introduces George Eliot and Money: Economics, Ethics and Literature with the reminder that history contains powerful lessons for those willing to heed them. Rather self-deprecatingly, he…
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Parens, Erik, Shaping Our Selves: On Technology, Flourishing and a Habit of Thinking
Erik Parens, Shaping Our Selves: On Technology, Flourishing and a Habit of Thinking (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014) 216pp. £16.99 Pb, £23.49 Hb. ISBN: 9780190211745 In Shaping Our Selves, Erik Parens, senior research scholar at The Hastings Center, urges against polarization in bioethics debates and calls for a truly cooperative and constructive endeavour in contemplating…
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Houser, Heather, Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect
Heather Houser, Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect (New York: Columbia University Press 2014) 328pp. $30 Pb, $65 Hb. ISBN: 9780231165143 Heather Houser’s Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction seeks to explore the connection between environmental change and human illness through the under-represented lens of affect. Her study looks exclusively at contemporary novel, and…
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Marcus, Laura, Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema
Laura Marcus, Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (New York: Cambridge University Press 2014) 263 pp. £19.99 Pb, £52.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781107622951 This book provides a comprehensive and readable introduction to Modernism by covering the literary, artistic and scientific achievements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Examining Modernism as a movement emerging around…
