Tag: 2022
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Zaretsky, Robert, Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague
Robert Zaretsky, Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022) 208 pp. $22.50 Cloth. ISBS: 9780226803494 Faced with lockdowns and isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic, Robert Zaretsky did what many people – especially those of us who work in the humanities – do in times…
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Brilmyer, S. Pearl, The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism
S. Pearl Brilmyer, The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022) 299 pp. £79.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780226815770 The Science of Character sets out to refute the traditional narrative of the rise of the novel as a ‘movement of character from inside to outside, surface to…
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Matz, Jesse, Modernist Time Ecology
Jesse Matz, Modernist Time Ecology (John’s Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2022), 230 pp. ISBN1421426994 Jesse Matz’s 2019 study, Modernist Time Ecology is a refreshing and poignant exploration into the temporally transformative qualities of modernist narratives. Inspired by the Tuzing Time Project, Matz expands the concept of an ‘ecology of time’, convincingly arguing for the extended…
