Tag: 2015
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Barnard, Teresa (ed), British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century
Teresa Barnard (ed.), British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Routledge 2015) xviii + 194 pp. £70.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781472437457 This collection of nine essays is divided into three thematic sections dealing with the sciences, religion, and radical politics. The book aims, as stated in Teresa Barnard and Ruth Watts’s…
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Bristow, Tom, The Anthropocene Lyric: an Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place
Tom Bristow, The Anthropocene Lyric: an Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2015) ix + 139 pp., £45.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-137-36474-6 ‘The making of place as a dynamic of couplings, as if love and trust are omens, odds in your favour.’ John Kinsella, Jam Tree Gully…
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Erickson, Paul, The World The Game Theorists Made
Paul Erickson, The World The Game Theorists Made (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2015) 390pp. $ 35.00 Pb, $105.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780226097176 In Robert Coover’s lamentably obscure 1968 novel, The Universal Baseball Association, J Henry Waugh, Prop., a socially-retiring accountant becomes increasingly absorbed into the private world of his fantasy baseball league. Each night after…
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Pollatsek, Alexander and Rebecca Treiman (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Reading
Alexander Pollatsek and Rebecca Treiman (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Reading (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015) 520 pp. £132.50 Hb. ISBN: 9780199324576 The aim of The Oxford Handbook of Reading, which is edited by Alexander Pollatsek and Rebecca Treiman and belongs to the larger Oxford Library of Psychology series, is to explore research into ‘how…
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Sutil, Nicolás Salazar and Sita Popat (eds), Digital Movement: Essays in Motion Technology and Performance
Nicolás Salazar Sutil and Sita Popat (eds.) Digital Movement: Essays in Motion Technology and Performance (London: Palgrave 2015) xx + 317 pp. £55 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-137-43040-3 The study of digital movement, as propounded by the editors of this volume, treats the space between those monadic instances (specific times or places) in which alone humans can…
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Dor, Daniel, The Instruction of Imagination: Language as a Social Communication Technology
Daniel Dor, The Instruction of Imagination: Language as a Social Communication Technology (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015) 280 pp. £56 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-19-025662-3 For anyone interested in language and how it works in modern day society, Dor offers a compelling account of competing positions in discourse linguistics. This text offers a socio-linguistic perspective on the…
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Grøtta, Marit, Baudelaire’s Media Aesthetics: The Gaze of the Flâneur and Nineteenth-Century Media
Marit Grøtta, Baudelaire’s Media Aesthetics: The Gaze of the Flâneur and Nineteenth-Century Media (London: Bloomsbury 2015) 216 pp. £27.09 EPUB, PDF, £31.09 Pb, £88.09 Hb. ISBN: 9781628924404 Much has been made, over the years, of the nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire’s criticism of photography, especially in his review of the Salon of 1859. On the…
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Skuse, Alanna, Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England: Ravenous Natures
Alanna Skuse, Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England: Ravenous Natures (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2015) viii + 219 pp. £15.00 Pb, £20.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-137-48752-0 Open access https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2F9781137487537.pdf Alanna Skuse’s Constructions of Cancer is a cultural history of a disease that we tend to think as modern, but which has a long and rich past. Skuse…
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Crawford, Paul and Brian Brown and Charley Baker and Victoria Tischler and Brian Abrams, Health Humanities
Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler and Brian Abrams, Health Humanities (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmilan 2015) 194pp. £15.99 EPUB & PDF, £19.99 Pb, £58.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781137282606 How can studies in the arts and humanities influence, shape and inform our cultural understanding of health and healthcare-related activities? This is the main question animating Health…
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Huston, Joseph P and Marcos Nadal and Francisco Mora and Luigi F Agnati and Camilo J Cela-Conde (eds), Art, Aesthetics and the Brain
Joseph P Huston, Marcos Nadal, Francisco Mora, Luigi F Agnati and Camilo J Cela-Conde (eds) Art, Aesthetics and the Brain (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015) 545 pp. £95 Hb. ISBN: 9780199670000 In the Preface to Art, Aesthetics and the Brain its editors boldly declare that ‘art is understandable in scientific terms.’ (v) Art and aesthetics…
