Tag: 2018
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Thornton, Amara, Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People
Amara Thornton, Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People (London: UCL Press, 2018) 312pp. £40.00 Hb. ISBN: 978‑1‑78735‑259‑9 £20.00 Pb ISBN: 978‑1‑78735‑258‑2 Free Open Access ISBN: 978‑1‑78735‑257‑5. Amara Thornton’s Archaeologists and Print: Publishing for the People (2018) examines the intricate and nuanced relationship between archaeologists and publishers in the late nineteenth and twentieth century. Acknowledging…
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Axelrod-Sokolov, Mark, Madness in Fiction: Literary Essays from Poe to Fowles
Mark Axelrod-Sokolov, Madness in Fiction: Literary Essays from Poe to Fowles (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) 98 pp. £45.99 Hb. ISBN: 9783319705200 Literature has always been interested in representing Madness. The list of texts dealing with the issue is nearly endless, ranging from Euripides to Chekov, from Don Quixote to The Yellow Wallpaper. This topic has been…
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Crossland, Rachel, Modernist Physics: Waves, Particles, and Relativities in the Writings of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence
Rachel Crossland, Modernist Physics: Waves, Particles, and Relativities in the Writings of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018) 208 pp. $81.00 ISBN: 9780198815976. Rachel Crossland’s debut monograph, Modernist Physics is a concise and timely examination of the resonances of Albert Einstein’s (1879-1955) seminal papers of 1905 in the writings of…
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Adelman, Richard, Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815-1900
Richard Adelman, Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 248 pp. $84.00 PDF. £75.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781108424134 Richard Adelman’s Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900 is the second volume in a project concerned with the fraught relation between the concepts of labour and aesthetic contemplation in British literature, cultural theory, and political economy.…
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Ifill, Helena, Creating Character: Theories of Nature and Nurture in Victorian Sensation Fiction
Helena Ifill, Creating Character: Theories of Nature and Nurture in Victorian Sensation Fiction (Manchester: Manchester University Press 2018) viii + 232 pp. £75.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-7849-9513-3 The ‘Queen of the Circulating Library’, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and her ‘literary father’ (in Braddon’s own estimate), Wilkie Collins, conquered the 1860s reading public in Britain and beyond with…
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Tankard, Alex, Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Invalid Lives
Alex Tankard, Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Invalid Lives (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2018) ix + 238 pp. £62.99 PDF & EPUB, £79.00 Hb. ISBN 978-3-319-71445-5 Alex Tankard’s Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Invalid Lives is a title in Palgrave Macmillan’s Literary Disability Studies, a series dedicated to literary readings informed by…
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Tondre, Michael, The Physics of Possibility: Victorian Fiction, Science, and Gender
Michael Tondre, The Physics of Possibility: Victorian Fiction, Science, and Gender (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press 2018) 242 pp. $45.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780813941455 Michael Tondre considers the ways in which mathematical physics influenced Victorian literature, science, and statistics from 1850 to 1880. His book is divided into two parts, with four chapters that survey a…
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Foltz, Jonathan, The Novel after Film: Modernism and the Decline of Autonomy
Jonathan Foltz, The Novel after Film: Modernism and the Decline of Autonomy (New York: Oxford University Press 2018) 289 pp. £46.49 Hb. ISBN: 9780190676490 This book offers a fresh approach to the simultaneous and interlinked analysis of literature and film by reassessing the contributions of such major authors as Virginia Woolf, H. D., Aldous Huxley…
