Tag: 2016
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Smith, Andrew and William Hughes (eds), Ecogothic
Ecogothic (International Gothic Series), Andrew Smith and William Hughes (eds), (Manchester: Manchester University Press, reprinted 2016) 216 pp. £44.55 Hb. £19.19 Kindle. ISBN: 1526106892. Ecogothic’s claim that it is the “first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas” is an ambitious but well-founded one. Published first in 2013, it has since been followed…
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Pratt-Smith, Stella, Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
Stella Pratt-Smith, Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science (Farnham: Ashgate, 2016) 176 pp. 9 B&W illustrations. £125.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781472419408 This book considers the literary representations and potential applications of electricity, as explored in British canonical, popular, and scientific works of the nineteenth century. Stella Pratt-Smith analyses the development of various theoretical and…
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Beck, John and Ryan Bishop (eds), Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics
John Beck and Ryan Bishop (eds), Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2016) 320 pp. £75.00 PDF, £24.99 Pb, £75.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781474409483 The historical picture of Cold War Legacies is, as its title suggests, one of continuities and intensifications, rather than dramatic ruptures. The appellations we use to distinguish our present…
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Mulvey-Roberts, Marie, Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal
Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal (Manchester: Manchester University Press 2016) 272 pp. £72 Hb. ISBN: 9780719085413 The gothic imaginary foregrounds the body unlike any other imaginary. In her methodically researched and richly detailed work, Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal, Marie Mulvey-Roberts confirms this truth. Corporal parts, the bloodied bits, scraps and…
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Wheeler, Wendy, Expecting the Earth: Life, Culture, Biosemiotics
Wendy Wheeler, Expecting the Earth: Life, Culture, Biosemiotics (London: Lawrence and Wishart 2016) 288 pp. £20 Hb. ISBN: 9781910448670 One of the core pursuits of literature and science scholarship is to confidently uncover the mutual entanglements of science and culture. Yet frequently, humanities scholars addressing the sciences assume a tone of self-conscious apology for dabbling…
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Wickman, Matthew, Literature After Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment
Matthew Wickman, Literature After Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) viii + 293 pp. 7 Illustrations. £54.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780812247954 Is the eighteenth-century cultural heritage of Euclid in the Scottish Enlightenment a question for foxes of hedgehogs? For Matthew Wickman, Professor of English at Brigham Young University,…