Tag: 2017
-
Chez, Keridiana W., Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Keridiana W. Chez, Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2017) 212 pp. 4 illustrations. $69.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780814213346. This study explores how transatlantic novels of the nineteenth and early twentieth century portrayed the dog, in various representations and subjectivities, as an interspecies prosthesis…
-
Laroche, Rebecca and Jennifer Munroe, Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory
Rebecca Laroche and Jennifer Munroe, Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory (London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2017) 216 pp. £75.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781472590473. Ecofeminism has emerged as a relatively new feminist theory as part of third-wave feminism. Ecofeminist literary criticism ‘redress[es] inequalities that result not only from dominations that subject women…Others..and non-humans to destructive pratices’ (xvii). Such readings…
-
Drury, Joseph, Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain
Joseph Drury, Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) 269 pp. £60 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-19-879238-3 In a book that considers how the novel functions as a machine, it is comforting to find an approach which leaves programmatic thinking far behind. In Novel Machines, Joseph Drury employs a set…
-
Barry, Peter and William Welstead (eds), Extending Ecocriticism: Crisis, Collaboration and Challenge in the Environmental Humanities
Peter Barry and William Welstead (eds), Extending Ecocriticism: Crisis, Collaboration and Challenge in the Environmental Humanities (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017) xiv + 273 pp. Hb £75, EPUB £71. ISBN-13: 978-1-7849-94396 (Hb). As Peter Barry and William Welstead explain in their introductory chapter, ‘Ecocriticism extends its boundaries’ (1-13), the aim of this collection of essays…
-
Belluc, Sylvain and Valérie Bénéjam (eds), Cognitive Joyce
Sylvain Belluc, and Valérie Bénéjam, eds, Cognitive Joyce. (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) xvi + 285 pp. £83.49 Kindle. £89.99 Hb. ISBN: 9783319719931 While no longer the Next Big Thing, nor a suspicious newcomer to the humanities, cognitive literary criticism (CLS) has still some way to go before it fully establishes itself as a ‘normal science’…
-
Gamer, Michael, Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry
Michael Gamer, Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) 330 pp. $80.00 PDF. £75.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781107158856 The value of Michael Gamer’s new book is not the novelty of its central argument. Jerome McGann has long since established his post-Althuserian conception of the textual materialities, both bibliographical and economic, which…
-
Hesketh, Ian, Victorian Jesus: J.R. Seeley, Religion, and the Cultural Significance of Anonymity
Ian Hesketh, Victorian Jesus: J.R. Seeley, Religion, and the Cultural Significance of Anonymity (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017) xiii + 272 pp. 11 B&W illustrations. £36.00 Kindle. £38.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781442645776 To most modern readers, J. R. Seeley is familiar as the author of The Expansion of England (1883). Indeed, it was while researching Seeley’s contribution to…
-
Broglio, Ron, Beasts of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism
Ron Broglio, Beasts of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017) xiii + 163 pp. $80.00 Hb. ISBN 9781438465678 The latest work from Ron Broglio probes the ways that British “Improvements” of the Romantic era –changes to the Poor Laws, reactions to food crises, labor…
-
Karpenko, Lara and Shalyn Claggett (eds), Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age
Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett (eds), Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,2017) 312 pp. 8 B&W Illustrations. $60.00 Hb. ISBN:9780472130177 Strange Science is a thoughtfully compiled collection of essays exploring various intersections of Victorian fringe science and mainstream culture. The essays are grouped into three sections,…
-
Fairclough, Mary, Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840: ‘Electrick Communication Every Where’
Mary Fairclough, Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840: ‘Electrick Communication Every Where’ (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2017) 264 + ix pp. £63.99 PDF & EPUB, £79.99 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-137-59314-6 Throughout history, perhaps few phenomena have seemed as strange or as spectacular as electricity –observable and demonstrated long before it was understood. Mary Fairclough’s Literature, Electricity and Politics…
