Tag: 2024
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Ahlberg, Sofia, Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of Ecological Crisis
Sofia Ahlberg, Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of Ecological Crisis (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) 147 pp. £81.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781350401143 Sofia Ahlberg’s Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of Ecological Crisis is a reimagination of the typical classroom as a launchpad (literally – her concluding chapter imagines the students and teachers viewing…
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MacNeill Miller, John, The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science
John MacNeill Miller, The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science (University of Virginia Press, 2024) 228 pp. $110 Hb. $32.50 Pb. ISBN: 9780813951775 John MacNeill Miller’s The Ecological Plot (2024) offers an ambitious contribution to the intellectual history of ecology by tracing the narrative forms through which ecological thinking first became imaginable.…
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Gupta, Suman and Peter H. Tu, The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants: An Engineering-Humanities Conversation
Suman Gupta and Peter H. Tu, The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants: An Engineering-Humanities Conversation (World Scientific, 2024) 280 pp. $30. Pb. ISBN 978-1-80061-421-5. The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants is an insightful and oft-playful exploration of the various conundrums that arise when envisioning the ultimate AI assistant. The apparent intention of the text is not to…
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Joseph-Lester, Jasper, Kahane, Ahuvia, King, Simon and Leslie, Esther (eds), Walking in Cities: Navigating Post-Pandemic Urban Environments
Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Ahuvia Kahane, Simon King and Esther Leslie (eds), Walking in Cities: Navigating Post-Pandemic Urban Environments (New York: Routledge, 2024) 352 pp. $180.00 Hb. $52.99 Pb. $39.74 e-book. ISBN: 978-1-032-41260-3 ‘Walking in Cities’ is perhaps one of the simplest yet most evocative titles one might give to a book about urban life. As a…
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Fyfe, Paul, Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities
Paul Fyfe, Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024) 294 pp. $60.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781503640948 Paul Fyfe’s Digital Victorians eloquently takes readers on an exploratory journey bringing together the Victorian period’s ‘new media’ moment and our own. Indeed, for Fyfe, contemporary developments in media technologies and communication – and…
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Carey, Brycchan, The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807
Brycchan Carey, The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024) 280 pp. $65.00. Hb. IBSN: 978-0300224412 The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807 by Brycchan Carey magnifies the cross-section of eighteenth-century British abolitionist writing that sought to un-naturalize slavery in a part of the world that…
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Desmond, Adrian, Reign of the Beast: The Atheist World of W. D. Saull and his Museum of Evolution
Adrian Desmond, Reign of the Beast: The Atheist World of W. D. Saull and his Museum of Evolution (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2024) xii+664 Free e-book. £25.46 Pb. £37.36 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-80511-240-2 In 1851, Admiral Sir John Ross returned to London from the Arctic expedition that had discovered the sad fate of Franklin’s lost expedition.…
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Chi, Chienyn, Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature
Chienyn Chi, Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) xvii + 143 pp. £109.99 Hb. £89.99 ebook. ISBN: 978-3-031-59891-3 Chienyn Chi’s work is a bold attempt to decolonize psychiatric and psychoanalytic discourse by revealing how theories of madness are deeply entangled in imperial histories and power…
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Dawson, Gowan, Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress Image
Gowan Dawson, Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress Image (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024) 392 pp. £30.00 Hb. ISBN 978-0-300-27062-4 Monkey to Man is Gowan Dawson’s study of the 1860-1979 emergence of the ‘March of Progress’ image: the well-worn notion of evolutionary development as an orderly left-to-right ascent. One finding:…
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Speitz, Michelle, The Romantic Sublime and Representations of Technology
Michelle Speitz, The Romantic Sublime and Representations of Technology (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2024) 216 pp. £80 Hb. ISBN: 9781835536704 In The Romantic Sublime and Representations of Technology, Michelle Speitz ‘offers the first full-length study of the sublime stories British Romantic writers told about technology’ (p. 1). This is a welcome and original study, casting…
