Tag: 2014
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Frederickson, Kathleen, The Ploy of Instinct: Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance (New York: Fordham University Press 2014)
Kathleen Frederickson, The Ploy of Instinct: Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance (New York: Fordham University Press 2014) 236pp. $75 Hb, $26 Pb. ISBN: 9780823262526 Kathleen Frederickson’s The Ploy of Instinct: Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance is a dexterous negotiation of Victorian ‘instinct’ both as an impetus for progress…
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Davies, Jeremy, Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature
Jeremy Davies, Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature (Oxford: Routledge 2014) 228 pp. £95.00 Hb, £28.00 Pb. ISBN: 9780415842914 The subject of bodily pain is an important and fruitful area of romantic scholarship that Davies gives his full attention in this ambitious and rigorous study. Critics such as Richard Sha, Steven Bruhm and Joanna Bourke have…
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Henchman, Anna, The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature
Anna Henchman, The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014) xviii+294 pp. £60 Hb. ISBN 978-0-19-968696-4 Tennyson and Hardy may have gazed at the heavens with a rare intensity, but astronomy provided an important imaginative resource for many poets, novelists and other writers during…
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Blancke, Stefaan and Hans Henrik Hjermitslev and Peter C. Kjærgaard (eds), foreword by Ronald L. Numbers, Creationism In Europe
Stefaan Blancke, Hans Henrik Hjermitslev, and Peter C. Kjærgaard (eds), foreword by Ronald L. Numbers, Creationism In Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2014) 296 pp. $39.95 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1562-8 ‘As insidious as it may seem, at least it’s not a worldwide movement […] I hope everyone realizes the extent to which this is a…
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Spanagel, David, DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton: Geology and Power in Early New York
David Spanagel, DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton: Geology and Power in Early New York (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2014) 288 pp. $54.95 Hb. ISBN: 9781421411040 In DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton, David Spanagel offers biographical treatments of the well-known New York politician DeWitt Clinton and the lesser-known geologist Amos Eaton and politician Stephen Van…
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Martin, Craig, Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History and Philosophy in Early Modern Science
Craig Martin, Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History and Philosophy in Early Modern Science (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2014) 272 pp. $54.95 Hb, EPUB, MOBI, PDF. ISBN: 9781421413167 Craig Martin sets out to provide an account of early modern anti-Aristotelianism as fundamentally informed by Christian piety. This thesis is important, and the book is full of…
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Slater, John and Maríaluz López-Terrada and José Pardo-Tomás (eds), Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire
John Slater, Maríaluz López-Terrada and José Pardo-Tomás (eds), Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish (Farnham: Ashgate 2014) 326 pp. £70.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781472428134 The Spanish Empire had one of the longest colonial legacies, which spans from the fourteenth through the twentieth centuries.1 Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire is a multifaceted inquiry and a profound…
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Frost, Mark, The Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St George: A Revisionary History
Mark Frost, The Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St George: A Revisionary History (London: Anthem Press 2014) 264pp. Hb £60.00. ISBN: 9781783082834 In 1871 John Ruskin launched a fund for the establishment of a new society. Ruskin envisaged a utopia based on medieval agrarianism, one which was community-minded and which opposed the advances…
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Feder, Helena, Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman
Helena Feder, Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman (Abingdon: Routledge 2014) 192 pp. £95.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-409-40157-5 In Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman, first published by Ashgate in 2014, Helena Feder reinterprets that ‘most enduring of modern Western cultural forms’ – the Bildungsroman – as ‘humanism’s…
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Ryan, Lorraine, Memory and Spatiality in Post-Millennial Spanish Narrative
Lorraine Ryan, Memory and Spatiality in Post-Millennial Spanish Narrative (Farnham: Ashgate 2014) 248 pp. Hb, £95. ISBN: 9781472435705 During the Spanish civil war, the liberal faction of Spain failed to create a new republic and after the war the country collapsed into oppression. Spain passed through a period of recovery which emphasized memory and was…
