Tag: 2021
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Fallon, Richard, Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature: How the ‘Terrible Lizard’ Became a Transatlantic Cultural Icon
Richard Fallon, Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature: How the ‘Terrible Lizard’ Became a Transatlantic Cultural Icon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) 283 pp. £75 HB. ISBN: 9781108834001 This is a book that will, I suspect, resonate deeply with the interests of the BSLS. Dinosaurs must surely be the most popular science topic…
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Farzin, Sina, Gaines, Susan M. and Haynes, Roslynn D., Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel
Sina Farzin, Susan M. Gaines and Roslynn D. Haynes, Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel (Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2021) 220 pp. $99.95 Hb. $34.95 Pb. ISBN: 9780271089782 Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel is a new collection of essays by Farzin, Gaines and…
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Powell, Rosalind, Perception and Analogy: Poetry, Science, and Religion in the Eighteenth Century
Rosalind Powell, Perception and Analogy: Poetry, Science, and Religion in the Eighteenth Century (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021) viii + 296 pp. £85.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-5261-5704-1 The eighteenth century witnessed the profound impact of natural philosophy on every facet of cultural expression. Rosalind Powell’s monograph, Perception and Analogy: Poetry, Science, and Religion in the Eighteenth…
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Pérez Edelman, Diana, Embryology and the Rise of The Gothic Novel
Diana Pérez Edelman, Embryology and the Rise of The Gothic Novel (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) pp.179, £109.99 Hb. £99.99 Pb. £79.50 ebook. ISBN: 978-3-030-73647-7 Diana Pérez Edelman’s study correlates the proto-scientific field of embryology with the genesis of the Gothic novel. Through a biological context, Edelman uncovers the scientific relationship between Gothic narratives and eighteenth-century…
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Auyoung, Elaine, When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind
Elaine Auyoung, When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), 164 pp. £68.00 Hb. £14.99 Pb. ISBN: 9780190845476 It is a well-known fact that realist novels are characterized by their verisimilitude. In When Fiction Feels Real, Elaine Auyoung sets out to explore some of the ways these texts achieve this and how they put readers ‘into relation with fictional…
