Tag: 2014
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Livingstone, David N., Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution
David N. Livingstone, Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2014) x + 263 pp. £26 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1326-6 In the early 1990s, John Hedley Brooke upset the troublingly persistent narrative of a conflict between science and religion. Instead, Brooke noticed the historical complexity and…
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Solomonescu, Yasmin, John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination
Yasmin Solomonescu, John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2014) xii, 226 pp. Hb, £58.00. ISBN: 978-1-137-42613-0 In July 2014, the John Thelwall Society and the University of Notre Dame in London celebrated Thelwall, the poet, elocutionist, and political agitator, at 250. The event was triumphant in spirit, and the organisers and attendees relished…
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Keen, Suzanne, Thomas Hardy’s Brains: Psychology, Neurology, and Hardy’s Imagination
Suzanne Keen, Thomas Hardy’s Brains: Psychology, Neurology, and Hardy’s Imagination (Columbus: Ohio State University Press 2014) xiii + 236 pp. Hb $64.95 , Pb $25.95 , CD $14.95. ISBN: 978-0-8142-1249-3 Suzanne Keen begins her book by discussing the sexologist Havelock Ellis’s review of ‘Hardy’s Novels’ from 1883.1 She highlights his observation that when anonymously published some nine…
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Frevert, Ute et al., Emotional Lexicons: Continuity and Change in the Vocabulary of Feeling 1700-2000
Ute Frevert, Christian Bailey, Pascal Eitler, Benno Gammerl, Bettina Hitzer, Margrit Pernau, Monique Scheer, Anne Schmidt, and Nina Verheyen, Emotional Lexicons: Continuity and Change in the Vocabulary of Feeling 1700-2000 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) x + 287 pp. Hb £68.00. ISBN: 9780199655731 In the opening chapter of this ambitious collaborative book, Ute Frevert acknowledges…
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Walter, Christina, Optical Impersonality: Science, Images and Literary Modernism
Christina Walter, Optical Impersonality: Science, Images and Literary Modernism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) 352pp. Hb, EPUB, MOBI , PDF $59.95. ISBN: 9781421413648 Walter’s book sets out to reframe modernist impersonality across three sites of cultural investigation: the history of optical science, the history of image-text relations, and the history of personality. Whilst the…
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MacDuffie, Allen, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination
Allen MacDuffie, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). ix + 305 pp. Hb £60.00, PDF $76.00 ISBN: 9781107064379 The problems relating to energy production and ecological sustainability which we face as a global community are, according to Allen MacDuffie, both material and representational. Nature itself imposes material limits on our capacity…
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Crane, Mary Thomas, Losing touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England
Mary Thomas Crane, Losing touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2014) 248 pp. Hb, EPUB, Mobi, PDF $49.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1531-4 Losing touch with Nature focuses on the reception of new scientific views in sixteenth-century England, a changing period during which the Aristotelian, Galenic, and Ptolemaic systems…
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Ferngren, Gary B., Medicine and Religion: a Historical Introduction
Gary B. Ferngren, Medicine and Religion: a Historical Introduction (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) 256 pp. Hb $49.95, Pb, EPub, Mobi, PDF $24.95. ISBN: 9781421412153 Gary Ferngren’s Medicine and Religion is a survey of the intersections between medical practices, broadly defined, and religious traditions across different societies and historical periods in the Western world.…
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Narain, Mona and Karen Gevirtz (eds), Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660-1820
Mona Narain and Karen Gevirtz,(eds.), Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660-1820 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014). 239 pp. £95.95 Hb, PDF, ePUB. ISBN: 978-1-4724-1508-0 This book covers the period of British history and literature between 1660 and 1820 when borders and boundaries including gendered geographies of power began to be reconfigured due to structural transformations in…
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Voigts, Eckart and Barbara Schaff and Monika Pietrzak-Franger (eds), Reflecting on Darwin (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014)
Eckart Voigts, Barbara Schaff and Monika Pietrzak-Franger (eds.), Reflecting on Darwin (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014) xii + 231 pp. £95 Hb, £90.25 Kindle. ISBN 978-1-4724-1407-6 Scholars on Darwin and Darwinism will be disappointed with how little of Darwin himself there is in this book. Setting out to discover the significance of Darwin today (5), this book…
