Tag: 2016
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Sloane, Andrew, Vulnerability and Care: Christian Reflections on the Philosophy of Medicine
Andrew Sloane, Vulnerability and Care: Christian Reflections on the Philosophy of Medicine (London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark 2016) 224 pp. £84.99 PDF, EPUB , £85.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780567316776 Andrew Sloane’s Vulnerability and Care: Christian Reflections on the Philosophy of Medicine is a brave attempt to redefine our approach to one of civilisation’s most enduring…
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Beer, Gillian, Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll
Gillian Beer, Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press 2016) 296 pp. $35.00 Hb. ISBN 978-0-226-04150-6 Serious Lewis Carroll scholars have long since abandoned the simplistic image of Charles Dodgson as an unworldly eccentric who isolated himself by retreating into a world of childhood and, specifically,…
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Morton, Timothy, Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence
Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (New York: Columbia University Press) 2016) xii + 191 pp. $30.00 Hb. ISBN 978-0-231-17752-8 Drawn from his 2015 series of Wellek lectures, Timothy Morton’s new work by turns fascinates, mystifies, stuns, confuses, and excites. Readers who seek new vocabularies for thinking about the Anthropocene and…
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Ford, Jane and Kim Edwards Keates and Patricia Pulham (eds), Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Libidinal Lives
Jane Ford, Kim Edwards Keates, and Patricia Pulham (eds), Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Libidinal Lives (Oxford: Routledge 2016) 214 pp. £110.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781138826342 This invigorating collection asserts itself as ‘the first sustained study to interrogate how and why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect in the literature…
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Sultzbach, Kelly, Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination: Forster, Woolf, and Auden
Kelly Sultzbach, Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination: Forster, Woolf, and Auden (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2016) 250 pp. £80.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781107161412 In Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination, Kelly Sultzbach seeks to trace and elucidate the development of a modernist environmental consciousness. The author begins by attempting to answer a problem posed through the ending…
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Murray, Alex, Landscapes of Decadence: Literature and Place at the Fin de Siècle
Alex Murray, Landscapes of Decadence: Literature and Place at the Fin de Siècle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2016) 235 pp. $80.00 PDF, £75.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-107-16966-1 Alex Murray’s Landscapes of Decadence considers the intersection between landscape, location and identity in the Decadent fin de siècle. Beginning with a reading of Arthur Symons’s impressionistic poem ‘At…
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Rylance, Rick, Literature and the Public Good
Rick Rylance, Literature and the Public Good (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016) 240pp. £14.99 Pb. ISBN: 9780199654390 Rick Rylance’s Literature and the Public Good is a monograph in Oxford’s The Literary Agenda series which seeks to investigate the state of literary studies in education and demonstrate the worth of studying literature within the wider world.…
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Ghosh, Amitav, The Great Derangement. Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement. Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press 2016) 196 pp. $15.00 Pb, $22.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-0226323039 Considering current political and scientific debates, the topic of the latest book by acclaimed Indian writer Amitav Ghosh could not be timelier. The Great Derangement, a relatively small volume…
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Redman, Samuel J., Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums
Samuel J Redman, Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press 2016) 373 pp. $29.95 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-674-66041-0 Samuel J Redman’s Bone Rooms chronicles the growth of collection of human remains in American museums from the time of the Civil War through to the twentieth century. Redman aims…
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Morgan, Luke, The Monster in the Garden: The Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design
Luke Morgan, The Monster in the Garden: The Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2016) 256 pp. $ 65.00 Hb. . ISBN: 9780812247558 In The Monster in the Garden Luke Morgan postulates that the historical place-spaces represented by Renaissance landscapes should be understood as in Foucauldian terms as…
