Tag: 2015
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Bourrier, Karen, The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel
Karen Bourrier, The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2015) 174pp. $35.00 Pb, $65.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-472-07248-4 Karen Bourrier makes a bold and somewhat unexpected argument in The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel. She reveals how the disabled man was…
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Menely, Tobias, The Animal Claim: Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice
Tobias Menely, The Animal Claim: Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2015) 267 pp. $30.00 Pb. $90.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780226239392 In The Animal Claim, Tobias Menely does something unusual: he shows that eighteenth-century high poetry is a matter of imminent relevance beyond the rarefied field of eighteenth-century studies. This is impressive…
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Seamon, John, Memory and Movies: What Films Can Teach Us about Memory
John Seamon, Memory and Movies: What Films Can Teach Us about Memory (Cambridge MA: MIT Press 2015) 272 pp. $21.95 ePub, PDF, $30.95 Hb. ISBN: 9780262029711 From psychoanalysis to ecocriticism, commentators of various theoretical hues have attempted to marry scientific discourse and film studies. However, critical discussions that use neuroscience and cinema in concert are…
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Middleton, Peter, Physics Envy: American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After
Peter Middleton, Physics Envy: American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After (University of Chicago Press 2015) 272 pp. $45 Hb. ISBN: 9780226290003 Peter Middleton’s most recent book Physics Envy: American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After charts a compelling map of the evolution of a literary engagement with science…
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Ramachandran, Ayesha, The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe
Ayesha Ramachandran, The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2015) 312 pp. $45.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780226288796 In The Worldmakers Ayesha Ramachandran takes readers into many worlds, both of her own making and those imagined by the eponymous ‘worldmakers’, a motley if erudite ensemble cast of mapmakers, anatomists, essayists, poets,…
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Wallraven, Miriam, Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture: Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches
Miriam Wallraven, Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture: Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches (New York: Routledge 2015) 236 pp. £95 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-138-82418-8 In Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture: Female Lucifers, Priestesses and Witches Miriam Wallraven investigates the ‘epistemological triad’ of interrelationships between occultism, gender and text –…
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Guenther, Katja, Localization and its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines
Katja Guenther, Localization and its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines (Chicago: Chicago University Press 2015) 310 pp. $35.00 PDF, Hb. ISBN: 9780226288208 Investigating the relationship between psychoanalysis and neurology, Localization and its Discontents takes the reader back to the nineteenth-century German-speaking world by providing a historical approach to the link between…
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Briefel, Aviva, The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination
Aviva Briefel, The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2015) 236 pp. £ 67.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781107116580 The second book published in Victorian Hand studies, Aviva Briefel’s The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination picks up where Peter Capuano’s recent monograph leaves off,1 contributing a needed perspective on intersections between race…
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Dickinson, Tommy, ‘Curing Queers’: Mental Nurses and their Patients, 1935-74
Tommy Dickinson, ‘Curing Queers’: Mental Nurses and their Patients, 1935-74 (Manchester: Manchester University Press 2015) 304pp. £70.00 Hb, £14.99 Pb. ISBN: 978-0-7190-9588-7 ‘Curing Queers’: Mental Nurses and their patients, 1935-74 is a much needed account of the role of ‘aversion therapy’ utilized as an alternative to imprisonment as punishment for homosexuality during an era when…
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Sellberg, Karin and Lena Wånggren and Kamillea Aghtan (eds), Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement
Karin Sellberg, Lena Wånggren, and Kamillea Aghtan (eds), Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement (Oxford: Routledge 2015) 210 pp. £60 Hb. ISBN: 9781472421272 Occasioned by the 2011 Bodies in Movement: Intersecting Discourses of Materiality in the Sciences and the Arts conference in Edinburgh, Corporeality and Culture is a collection of eleven eclectic – yet wonderfully…
