Tag: 2016
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Holledge, Julie and Jonathan Bollenand Frode Helland and Joanne Tompkins, A Global Doll’s House: Ibsen and Distant Visions
Julie Holledge, Jonathan Bollen, Frode Helland, and Joanne Tompkins, A Global Doll’s House: Ibsen and Distant Visions (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2016) 234 pp. £55.99 EPUB & PDF, £99.99 Hb. ISBN 978-1-137-43898-0 Nora’s slamming door has led scholars and historians constantly to rethink and interrogate Ibsen’s play and its thousands of production records. Ibsen’s Et dukkehjem…
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Carlson, Julia S., Romantic Marks and Measures: Wordsworth’s Poetry in Fields of Print
Julia S. Carlson, Romantic Marks and Measures: Wordsworth’s Poetry in Fields of Print (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) xiv + 354 pp. £50.00 Hb. ISBN 9780812247879 In this ambitious, important book, Julia Carlson sets out to reassess two of the most fundamental elements of Wordsworth’s poetry. Claiming in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads that…
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Heise, Ursula K., Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species
Ursula K. Heise, Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), xiii + 280 pp. £21.00 Pb. and ebook. £62.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780226358024 There have been five naturally occurring mass extinctions since the beginning of life on Earth. We are now, largely unwittingly, perpetrating the sixth. But who are ‘we’?…
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Hawhee, Debra, Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation
Debra Hawhee, Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2016) 444 pp. 3 halftones. $45.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780226398174 From the start, Debra Hawhee (1970-) is clear about three major elements in her exemplary and pioneering study, Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation: 1) Nonhuman animals pervade premodern, medieval, and early…
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Bashford, Alison and Joyce E. Chaplin, The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Rereading the Principle of Population
Alison Bashford and Joyce E. Chaplin, The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Rereading the Principle of Population (London: Princeton University Press, 2016) 368 pp. £35.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780823272990 The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus offers a timely reappraisal of Malthus’s writing on population within the context of eighteenth and early nineteenth century colonial…
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Lamb, Jonathan, Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery
Jonathan Lamb, Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016) 328 pp. £35.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780691182933 Scurvy impacted profoundly the history of Europe’s expansion by sea and, consequently, influenced heavily its society, culture and artistic production. The scientific and medical history of scurvy was discussed by Kenneth J. Carpenter in The History of…
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Trollinger, Susan L. and William Vance Trollinger, Jr., Righting America at the Creation Museum
Susan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger, Jr., Righting America at the Creation Museum (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016) 344 pp. £20 Hb. ISBN: 9781421419510 In Righting America at the Creation Museum, Susan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger, Jr. give crucial insights into an American cultural as well as political phenomenon, namely Conservative Christian…
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Pak, Chris, Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction
Chris Pak, Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2016) 256 pp. £80 Hb. ISBN: 9781781382844 Terraforming, or Earth-shaping, is a hypothetical process is by which a plant, moon, or other body undergoes substantive changes in atmosphere, temperature, topography, and ecology, to render it fit for human habitation. Martyn Fogg has…
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Hanson, Claire and Gerri Kimber and Todd Martin (eds), Katherine Mansfield and Psychology
Claire Hanson, Gerri Kimber and Todd Martin (eds), Katherine Mansfield and Psychology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2016) 224 pp. £70 PDF, EPub, £70 Hb. ISBN: 9781474417532 Katherine Mansfield and Psychology explores the pre-Freudian psychological beliefs that influenced Mansfield’s writing while simultaneously engaging in retrospective readings with relation to post-Freudian theorists including Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan…
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Coppola, Al, The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Al Coppola, The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016), x + 265 pp. £56.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780190269715 ‘All the philosophies that men have learned or devised are, in our opinion, so many plays produced and performed which have created false and fictitious worlds’. This quotation from Lord Bacon’s…
