Tag: 2017
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Clarke, Bruce and Manuela Rossini (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman
Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017) xxxiv + 231 pp. $22.00 PDF, £17.99 Pb, £49.99 Hb. ISBN: 9781107086203 As The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman demonstrates, posthuman ideas have been around for centuries, even if the exact word and concept…
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Morrisson, Mark S, Modernism, Science, and Technology
Mark S Morrisson, Modernism, Science, and Technology (London: Bloomsbury 2017) 192 pp. $23.00 EPUB, PDF, $29.95 Pb, $94.00 Hb. ISBN 9781474233415 Modernist studies have been at the forefront of the recent turn towards interdisciplinary research in literature and science. In Modernism, Science, and Technology (2017), Mark S Morrisson offers an illuminating overview of the field.…
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Eklund, Hillary (ed), Ground-Work: English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science
Hillary Eklund, ed, Ground-Work: English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science (PIttsburgh: Duquesne University Press 2017) 330 pp. $70.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-8207-0499-9 How often do we pay attention to the detritus below our feet? How frequently do we consider the materiality and deep metaphorical reservoirs of the earth upon which we walk? If these questions evoke…
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Rieder, John, Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System
John Rieder, Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2017) viii + 208 pp. $22.95 Pb, $75.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-8195-7715-3 Rieder’s thesis in this innovative approach to the history of what we understand to be science fiction is that ‘it is an organic genre of the mass cultural genre system’…
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Solnick, Sam, Poetry and the Anthropocene: Ecology, Biology and Technology in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
Sam Solnick, Poetry and the Anthropocene: Ecology, Biology and Technology in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (London: Routledge 2017) xii + 224 pp. £35 EPUB, £75 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-138-941687 In Poetry and the Anthropocene, Sam Solnick considers the way in which contemporary poetry ‘addresses the revolutions the Anthropocene creates in humanity’s condition’ (4). One challenge, as Solnick…
