Tag: 2015
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Björkén-Nyberg, Cecilia, The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel
Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg, The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel (Ashgate, 2015) 222 pp. £60 hb, ebook PDF, ebook ePUB. ISBN: 978-1-4724-3998-7 In a book that showcases the player piano and the Edwardian novel—or ‘the democratisation of music through technology and the storage of musical experience in literature’, as the author, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg, explains—we are fascinated to…
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Capuano, Peter J., Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body
Peter J. Capuano, Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body (The University of Michigan Press, 2015). 340pp. ISBN 9780472121403 Descriptions of hands flood Victorian novels, and yet, until now, they have received minimal critical attention when compared to other organs (e.g., faces, brains, eyes, skulls, etc.). Their pervasiveness, according to Pete…
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Keene, Melanie, Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairytales of Victorian Britain
Melanie Keene, Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairytales of Victorian Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015). 256pp. Hb. £16.99 ISBN: 978-0-19-966265-4 Melanie Keene’s Science in Wonderland offers an engaging introduction to the Victorian use of wonder and fantastical elements in scientific writing and communication, particularly in works for children. Keene draws on a wide range…
