Tag: 2017
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Hutson, Lorna (ed), The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700
Lorna Hutson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2017) 832 pp. £95.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780199660889 Constructively posing some of the most challenging questions animating the study of law and literature, The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 is a critical resource for any scholar of…
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Jr, Robert T Tally (ed), The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space
Robert T Tally Jr (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space (Abingdon: Routledge 2017) 375pp. £175 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-138-81635-0 The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space is a collection of thirty-two essays through which editor Robert T Tally Jr. showcases a variety of approaches to questions of space and place in literature. The Handbook…
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Pourciau, Sarah M, The Writing of Spirit: Soul, System, and The Roots of Language Science
Sarah M Pourciau, The Writing of Spirit: Soul, System, and The Roots of Language Science (New York: Fordham University Press 2017) $16.99 EPUB, $25.00 Pb, $90.00 Hb ISBN: 9780823275625 The Writing of Spirit opens up new directions of thinking about the rise of language science from the eighteenth century into the first half of the…
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Asher, Kenneth, Literature, Ethics, and the Emotions
Kenneth Asher, Literature, Ethics, and the Emotions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017) 194 pp. $80 PDF, £75 Hb. ISBN: 9781107185951 In Literature, Ethics, and the Emotions, Kenneth Asher takes further what he describes as the ‘ethical turn’ in literary studies (175). At a time when literary theory was dominated by deconstruction, postmodernism and a scepticism…
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Bailes, Melissa, Questioning Nature. British Women’s Scientific Writing & Literary Originality 1750-1830
Melissa Bailes, Questioning Nature. British Women’s Scientific Writing & Literary Originality 1750-1830, (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press 2017) 272 pp. $45.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780813939766 Melissa Bailes’s Questioning Nature explores prominent female authors’ scientific production in the long eighteenth century in light of the contemporary cultural debate on authorship, plagiarism and copyright laws, which eventually…
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Heise, Ursula K and Jon Christensen and Michelle Niemann (eds), The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities
Ursula K Heise, Jon Christensen and Michelle Niemann (eds), The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities (Oxford: Routledge 2017) 490pp. £175.00 Hb. ISBN: 1138786748 If we were judging a book by its size, weight or cover, The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities is an intimidating collection on all counts. The collection claims to make…
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Robinson, Douglas, Translationality: Essays in the Translational-Medical Humanities
Douglas Robinson, Translationality: Essays in the Translational-Medical Humanities (London: Routledge 2017) 239pp. £105 Hb. ISBN: 9781138727045 At first glance, the main title of this book seems ordinary to the point of blandness, easily mistaken for the simple word ‘translation’; even if this mistake isn’t made, ‘translational’ is common enough and the suffix ‘-ity’ is readily…
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Pietrzak-Franger, Monika, Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture: Medicine, Knowledge, and the Spectacle of Invisibility
Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture: Medicine, Knowledge, and the Spectacle of Invisibility (London: Palgrave 2017) 338 pp. £73.50 PDF EPUB, £92.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-3-319-49534-7 Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture is an authoritative survey of the interrelated cultural associations surrounding syphilis in the Victorian period. Part of the impressive Palgrave Studies in…
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Coyer, Megan, Literature, Medicine and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1817–1858
Megan Coyer, Literature, Medicine and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1817–1858 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2017) 246 pp. £70 Hb. ISBN: 978–1–4744–0562 Megan Coyer’s Literature, Medicine and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1817–1858 examines the relationship between medical culture and the periodical press in the early nineteenth century, focusing on the…
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Wånggren, Lena, Gender, Technology and the New Woman
Lena Wånggren, Gender, Technology and the New Woman (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2017) xi + 218 pp. £75 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-474-416269 Wånggren’s book opens with a quote that perfectly embodies its focus. In Olive Schreiner’s short story ‘Three Dreams in a Desert’ (1890), the narrator comes across the figure of a woman weighed down with…
