Tag: 2015
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Zarimis, Maria, Darwin’s Footprint: Cultural Perspectives on Evolution in Greece (1880-1930s)
Maria Zarimis, Darwin’s Footprint: Cultural Perspectives on Evolution in Greece (1880-1930s) (Budapest and New York: Central European University Press 2015) 333 pp. £38 Hb, £22 Pb. ISBN: 978-963-386-077-9 Although Darwin’s name will conjure up in most readers’ minds a familiar assortment of venerable historic figures, Zarimis immediately indicates in Darwin’s Footprint that her subjects will…
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Lewens, Tim, Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges
Tim Lewens, Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) 224 pp. £25.00 Hb. ISBN: 9870199674183 As a leading Darwin scholar, Tim Lewens is admirably qualified to produce a useful work on the knotty problems of cultural evolution. In this book Lewens guides us through the various arguments on evolutionary approaches to cultural change,…
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Eggert, Katherine, Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England
Katherine Eggert, Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) 368 pp. Hb, EPUB, PDF $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4751-0 Katherine Eggert’s examination of early modern alchemy and epistemic practices begins with a seemingly irrational proposition; namely, it is “possible not to know what one knows” (2). As…
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Pietsch, B. M., Dispensational Modernism
B. M. Pietsch, Dispensational Modernism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015) 262 pp. Hb £47.99. ISBN: 978-0-19-024408-8 This book explores the origins of dispensationalism within early American fundamentalism, calling attention to scientific rhetoric and engineering methods utilised by dispensationalists for interpreting the Bible and understanding the nature of time. The author offers a thought-provoking re-evaluation…
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Parrinder, Patrick, Utopian Literature and Science: From the Scientific Revolution to Brave New World and Beyond
Patrick Parrinder, Utopian Literature and Science: From the Scientific Revolution to Brave New World and Beyond (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) ix, 222 pp. Hb £55.00. ISBN: 978-1-137-45677-9 Several questions provide the framework for Patrick Parrinder’s Utopian Literature and Science, the most compelling of which, perhaps, is whether or not there is a profound and irresolvable…
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Duffy, Larry, Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge
Larry Duffy, Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), xvii + 261 pp. £58 Hb, £45.99 PDF. ISBN 978-1-137-29753-2 In his latest study, Larry Duffy meticulously traces the weave of knowledge as it appears in the fabric of the nineteenth century novel. In the texts of those two great icons…
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Alexander, Sarah C, Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable
Sarah C Alexander, Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable (London: Routledge, 2015) 256pp. £95 Hb, £27.99 Mobi, £34.99 EPUB. ISBN 9781848935662 Sarah C. Alexander’s Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable is yet another valuable effort to rethink the issue of literature and science in ways other than that of the “Two…
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Pasanek, Brad, Metaphors of Mind: An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary
Brad Pasanek, Metaphors of Mind: An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2015). 392 pp. $49.95 Hb, ePUB, PDF, MOBI. ISBN 978-1-4214-1688-5 Brad Pasanek’s Metaphors of Mind is a bold, broad and ambitious study. This compendium of metaphors that were used in the eighteenth century – ‘the heyday of figurative empiricism in Green Britain’…
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Munro, Jennifer and Edward Geisweidt and Lynne Bruckner (eds), Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts: A Field Guide to Reading and Teaching
Jennifer Munro, Edward Geisweidt, and Lynne Bruckner, eds. Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts: A Field Guide to Reading and Teaching (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015). xx + 274pp. £58.50 Hb, £19.99 Pb, ePUB, PDF. ISBN 978-1-4724-1675-9 Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts is an ambitious and useful reevaluation of contemporary ecocritical and environmentalist practices in literary studies. Indeed,…
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Brothers, Dometa Wiegand, The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy: On All Sides Infinity
Dometa Wiegand Brothers, The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy: On All Sides Infinity (Palgrave 2015), Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print, 216pp. £55 hb. ISBN 978–1–137–47433–9. Jane Taylor’s 1806 poem “The Star,” better known today as the children’s verse “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” highlights the two central and interlocking themes of Dometa…
