Tag: 2023
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Cox, Jessica, Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Jessica Cox, Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cheltenham: The History Press, 2023) 320 pp. £25.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780750998574 The nineteenth century witnessed a population boom that has long been the subject of historical attention, particularly within in the context of industrialisation and expansion. However, Jessica Cox, a reader in English…
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De Kruif, Paul, The Drama of Discovery: How Microbe Hunters Shaped Popular Understandings of Microbiology
Paul De Kruif, The Drama of Discovery: How Microbe Hunters Shaped Popular Understandings of Microbiology (India: Grapevine, 2023) 257 pp. ₹ 260 Pb. ISBN-13: 978-9357894272 2026 marks a hundred years since Paul de Kruif, an American microbiologist-turned-journalist, published Microbe Hunters, a book that quickly became a popular gateway into the dramatic world of microbes and…
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Howick, Jeremy, The Power of Placebos: How the Science of Placebos and Nocebos Can Improve Health Care
Jeremy Howick, The Power of Placebos: How the Science of Placebos and Nocebos Can Improve Health Care (Johns Hopkins University Press: 2023) 320 pp. $32.95 Hb. ISBN: 9781421446387 Can the solution to the opioid crisis—and perhaps even the superbug problem—lie in using less medication, without compromising pain relief or curability? Professor and Director of Empathic…
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Joseph, May and Varino, Sofia, Aquatopia: Climate Interventions
May Joseph and Sofia Varino, Aquatopia: Climate Interventions (Routledge, 2023) 97pp. £38.39 Hb. ISBN: 9781032326405 In Aquatopia: Climate Interventions, May Joseph and Sofia Varino present a concise yet conceptually ambitious reflection on climate performance, colonial histories and water ecologies. Situated within Routledge’s Critical Climate Studies series, the book documents and theorises the site-specific performances of…
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Miller, Hugh, The Old Red Sandstone, or New Walks in an Old Field, edited with a critical study and notes by Michael A. Taylor and Ralph O’Connor
Hugh Miller, The Old Red Sandstone, or New Walks in an Old Field, edited with a critical study and notes by Michael A. Taylor and Ralph O’Connor (Edinburgh: National Museums Scotland, 2023), 2 vols: 684 pp. £30.00. Sb. ISBN: 9781910682258 The most well-known nineteenth-century British palaeontologist is probably Mary Anning, the working-class Lyme Regis collector…
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Clayton, Jay, Literature, Science, and Public Policy: From Darwin to Genomics
Jay Clayton, Literature, Science, and Public Policy: From Darwin to Genomics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023) 290 pp. £85.00 Hb. Open Access via Cambridge Core. ISBN: 9781009263528 Jay Clayton’s valuable book takes a range of texts that may seem familiar to BSLS readers and remakes them as the foundations for a new set of approaches…
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Wong, Amy R., Refiguring Speech: Late Victorian Fictions of Empire and the Poetics of Talk
Amy R. Wong, Refiguring Speech: Late Victorian Fictions of Empire and the Poetics of Talk (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023) xii+228 pp. $70.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781503635173 Amy R. Wong’s Refiguring Speech: Late Victorian Fictions of Empire and the Poetics of Talk is a provocative and ambitious intervention in Victorian studies, postcolonial theory, and literary…
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de Groot, Jerome, Double Helix History: Genetics and the Past
Jerome de Groot, Double Helix History: Genetics and the Past (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023) 222 pp. £29.59 Pb. £108.00 Hb. £29.59 eBook ISBN: 9780367512354 Considering the ways in which genetic science has begun to inflect not only what we make of the past but especially how historians investigate the past and what they envision this science…
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Sarkar, Debapriya, Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science
Debapriya Sarkar, Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023) 265 pp. $65.00 Hb. ISBN: 97815128-2335-6 In Chapter 4 of Possible Knowledge: The literary forms of Early Modern Science, Margaret Cavendish’s lady with an earring remains unknowing as a whole cosmology comes to life and is annihilated within the…
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Fyfe, Aileen and Kidd, Colin (eds), Beyond the Enlightenment: Scottish Intellectual Life, 1790-1914
Aileen Fyfe and Colin Kidd (eds), Beyond the Enlightenment: Scottish Intellectual Life, 1790-1914 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023) xii + 273 pp. £85.00 Hb. £24.99 Pb. £24.99 Ebook. ISBN: 9781474493031 David Hume, Adam Smith, Joseph Black, Dugald Stewart, Adam Ferguson, John Leslie, James Hutton, William Cullen, James Watt. These very prominent and influential philosophers, economists,…
