Tag: 2015
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Pernau, Margrit and Helge Jordhem et al., Civilizing Emotions. Concepts in Nineteenth-Century Asia and Europe
Margrit Pernau, Helge Jordhem et al., Civilizing Emotions. Concepts in Nineteenth-Century Asia and Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015) £83.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-19-874553-2 Civilisation is at the heart of today’s campaigns for increasing social harmony and courtesy in public space. This process, Pernau and Jordheim tell us in their recent edited book, pertains not only…
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Stephens, Paul, The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing
Paul Stephens, The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015) 240 pp. $25.00 Pb. $87.50 Hb. ISBN: 9780816694419 In The Poetics of Information Overload, Paul Stephens offers a cogent history of the debates around information overload, its political, socio-economic, philosophical, and particularly its poetic implications. This is…
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Botting, Fred and Catherine Spooner (eds), Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects: Imaging Gothic from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Fred Botting and Catherine Spooner (eds), Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects: Imaging Gothic from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (Manchester: Manchester University Press 2017) 192 pp. £75.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-7190-8977-0 Fred Botting and Catherine Spooner’s edited collection Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects: Imaging Gothic from the Nineteenth Century to the Present is the latest installment of Manchester University…
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Smith, Simon and Jacqueline Watson and Amy Kenny (eds), The Senses in Early Modern England 1558-1660
Simon Smith, Jacqueline Watson and Amy Kenny (eds), The Senses in Early Modern England 1558-1660 (Manchester: Manchester University Press 2015) 256 pp. £75.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-7190-9158-2 The theoretical background of the representation of sense perception in art and literature has seen an expansion in recent years as the result of the cognitive turn, and of…
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Marks, Peter, Imagining Surveillance: Eutopian and Dystopian Literature and Film
Peter Marks, Imagining Surveillance: Eutopian and Dystopian Literature and Film (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2015) £19.99 Pb, £70.00 PDF & EPUB, £70.00 Hb. ISBN 978-1-474-42655-8 Peter Marks’s Imagining Surveillance is an interdisciplinary attempt to illuminate the manifold connections between the humanities and social sciences, especially literary criticism and surveillance studies. He has a close look…
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Merchant, Peter and Catherine Waters (eds), Dickens and the Imagined Child
Peter Merchant and Catherine Waters (eds), Dickens and the Imagined Child (Farnham: Ashgate 2015) 226 pp. £70.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781472423818 This book contributes to an already abundant field of criticism of Dickens and his work. It is divided into three parts, with twelve essays focused on various aspects of childhood in Dickens’s life and literature. Part…
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Whitman, Jon (ed), Romance and History: Imagining Time from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period
Jon Whitman (ed.), Romance and History: Imagining Time from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2015) 338 pp. $82.00 PDF, £22.99 Pb, £67.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781107042780 In Romance and History: Imagining Time from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period, Jon Whitman brings together experts from different countries to discuss…
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Clarke, Bruce (ed), Earth, Life, and System: Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet
Bruce Clarke (ed.), Earth, Life, and System: Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet (New York: Fordham University Press 2015), xiii+347 pp. Pb $35, $95 Hb. ISBN: 9780823265244 Lynn Margulis (1938-2011) was one of the boldest and most imaginative evolutionary and ecological theorists of the late twentieth century. Although her name does not appear on…
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Goulet, Andrea, Legacies of the Rue Morgue
Andrea Goulet, Legacies of the Rue Morgue (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2015) 251 pp. $65.00 Hb. ISBN 978-0-8122-4779-4 Legacies of the Rue Morgue takes the renowned Edgar Allan Poe tale ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ as a foundational framework and traces the developing representation of space, violence and state in French crime fiction,…
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Bach, Susanne and Folkert Degenring (eds), Dark Nights, Bright Lights: Night, Darkness, and Illumination in Literature
Susanne Bach and Folkert Degenring (eds), Dark Nights, Bright Lights: Night, Darkness, and Illumination in Literature (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 2015) viii + 233 pp. £90.99 Hb. ISBN 978-3-11-041510-0 In an essay entitled ‘From Shakespearean Nights to Light Pollution’ in the collection Urban Lighting, Light Pollution and Society (ed. Josiane Meier, Ute Hasenöhrl, Katharina Krause,…
