Tag: 2015
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Charalampous, Charis, Rethinking the Mind-Body Relationship in Early Modern Literature, Philosophy and Medicine
Charis Charalampous, Rethinking the Mind-Body Relationship in Early Modern Literature, Philosophy and Medicine (Oxford: Routledge 2015) 168 pp. 8 B&W illus. £90.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781138823914 Charis Charalampous’s study is a contribution to the Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture series, and examines theoretical and creative approaches to the human body as an intelligence, with…
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Catani, Marco and Stefano Sandrone, Brain Renaissance: From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience
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Marco Catani and Stefano Sandrone, Brain Renaissance: From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015) 304pp. £38.99 Hb. ISBN: 9780199383832 Marco Catani and Stefano Sandrone, the authors of Brain Renaissance, from Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience, take as their starting point the famous physician Andreas Vesalius, and his publication De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543).…
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Abberley, Will, English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850-1914
Will Abberley, English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2015) 247 pp. $80.00 PDF, £64.99 Hb. ISBN: 9781107101166 Will Abberley’s English Fiction and the Evolution of Language 1850-1914, as the title suggests, explores the development of the English language through fiction, arguing that the influence of fiction on the development…
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Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten E., Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett
Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr, Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett (New York & Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2015). xiv + 380 pp. £34.50 Hb. ISBN: 9780231164702 In her Preface, Shepherd-Barr recounts wisely rejecting her original name for this book: Darwin and the Dramatists. This admittedly ‘catchy’ title would, as she realised, have totally betrayed her…
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Luczak, Ewa Barbara, Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination
Ewa Barbara Luczak, Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination: Hereditary Rules in the Twentieth Century (New York: Palgrave 2015) viii + 275 pp. £58.00 Hb, £45.99 PDF. ISBN: 978-1-137-54578-7 Because of its association with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, the field of eugenics has often been dismissed as an anomaly within the American…
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Telotte, J P and Gerald Duchovnay (eds), Science Fiction, Double Feature: The Science Fiction Film as Cult Text
J P Telotte & Gerald Duchovnay, eds, Science Fiction, Double Feature: The Science Fiction Film as Cult Text (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2015) 256 pp. £75.00 Hb. ISBN 9781781384640 Science Fiction, Double Feature is a fascinating collection that addresses the fairly recent phenomenon of the cult genre. Editors J. P. Telotte and Gerald Duchovnay bring…
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Preston, Claire, The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Claire Preston, The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015) 320 pp. Hb, £60. ISBN: 9780198704805 The language of early modern scientific inquiry was neither predetermined nor did it elicit consensus among its practitioners regarding the most effective means for conveying information. Instead, as Claire Preston amply demonstrates, the rhetoric…
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Dodman, Trevor, Shell Shock, Memory, and the Novel in the Wake of World War I
Trevor Dodman, Shell Shock, Memory, and the Novel in the Wake of World War I (New York: Cambridge University Press 2015) 256pp. Hb, £64.99, PDF $80. ISBN: 978-1107114203 ‘There is never a single approach to something remembered’, writes John Berger in About Looking (1980). ‘Numerous approaches or stimuli converge upon and lead to it’ (qtd.…
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Jones, Esther L., Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction
Esther L. Jones, Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2015) x + 190 pp. Hb £55.00, PDF £43.99. ISBN: 978-1-137-52060-9 Framing her discussion of Black Women’s health with the metaphor of eating salt together, taken from Toni Cade Bambara’s 1980 novel The Salt Eaters, Jones explores how black women’s…
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Hughes, William, That Devil’s Trick: Hypnotism and the Victorian Popular Imagination
William Hughes, That Devil’s Trick: Hypnotism and the Victorian Popular Imagination (Manchester: Manchester University Press 2015) 256 pp. Hb £70. ISBN 978-0-7190-7483-7 It is the sign of a good book when the reviewer’s main criticism is a quibble with the accuracy of its title. Despite the suggested focus on hypnotism, the main emphasis throughout is…
