Tag: 2023
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Allitt, Marie, Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care
Marie Allitt, Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023), 264 pp. £85 Hb. Open Access Ebook. ISBN: 9781474489928 Marie Allitt’s Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War makes a significant contribution to critical medical humanities and First World War studies by offering the first extensive…
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Hearn, Lafcadio, Insect Literature
Lafcadio Hearn, Insect Literature (Dublin: Swan River Press, 2023) xiv+272 pp. €40.00 Hb. €20.00 Pb. ISBN: 9781783800094 Insect Literature’s unique gathering of Lafcadio Hearn’s insect texts feels authentic and intensely personal: a labour of love for writer, editor, and publisher alike. It is a new edition of a posthumous collection of essays and stories by…
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Hall, Alice (ed), Contemporary Literature and the Body: A Critical Introduction
Alice Hall (ed.), Contemporary Literature and the Body: A Critical Introduction (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023) x+264pp. £16.99 Pb. $90.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781350180222 In her introduction to Contemporary Literature and the Body: A Critical Introduction (2023), Alice Hall draws on the irony presented by Joanna Stawnicka’s artwork ‘Self -Portrait in Autumn and Self-Portrait in Winter 2021’,…
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Flaherty, Jennifer and Deborah Uman (eds), Liberating Shakespeare: Adaptation and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences
Jennifer Flaherty and Deborah Uman, eds, Liberating Shakespeare: Adaptation and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), 215pp. PB £21.79. ISBN 978-1-350-32024-3 Flaherty and Uman emphasise in their introduction, ‘Taking Young Adults Seriously’, that Young Adult (YA) Shakespeare is not about ‘dumbing down’ Shakespeare’s work: ‘fun is not synonymous with inconsequential or frivolous. Contemporary…
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Dittmer, Nicole C. and Sophie Raine (eds), Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic: Investigations of Pernicious Tales of Terror
Nicole C. Dittmer and Sophie Raine (eds), Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic: Investigations of Pernicious Tales of Terror, Gothic Literary Studies Series (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2023), 248 pp. £75 Hb. ISBN 9781786839701 In the introduction to Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic: Investigations of Pernicious Tales of Terror, Nicole Dittmer and Sophie Raine make…
