Tag: 2024
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Taylor, Stuart J., Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction
Stuart J. Taylor, Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) ix+308 pp. £109.99 Hb. £89.99 ebook. ISBN: 978-3-031-48670-8 As mathematics appears unreasonably effective in defining and solving problems, we now observe its arresting spread, in real time, into each and every aspect of our life, through its various forms and incarnations – models, data,…
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Hoiem, Elizabeth Massa, The Education of Things: Mechanical Literacy in British Children’s Literature
Elizabeth Massa Hoiem, The Education of Things: Mechanical Literacy in British Children’s Literature, 1762-1860 (Amherst, MA.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2024) 328 pp. $30.95 Pb. ISBN: 9781625347558 Winner of the 2025 Justin G. Schiller Prize for the best bibliographic study of pre-1951 children’s literature. Elizabeth Massa Hoiem’s winning of this influential award is completely warranted.…
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Orr, Mary, Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791-1856) and Pioneering Perspectives on Natural History
Mary Orr, Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791-1856) and Pioneering Perspectives on Natural History (London: Anthem Press, 2024) 294 pp. £80.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-1083998-609-3 The last two decades have seen an almost exponential advance in our knowledge and understanding of women’s many contributions to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European science. Building on groundbreaking works in the 1990s by…
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Evens, Aden, The Digital and Its Discontents
Aden Evens, The Digital and Its Discontents (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2024) 264 pp. $116.00 Hb. $29.00 Pb. ISBN: 9781517916329 Changing one’s laptop can be likened to moving into a new house. The rooms would be located differently, and walls would not immediately have the frames one is so used to seeing. One’s body feels…
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Langbein, Julia, Fuchs, Anne and Cosgrove, Mary (eds) Framing Aging: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Humanities and Social Sciences Research
Julia Langbein, Anne Fuchs and Mary Cosgrove (eds) Framing Aging: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Humanities and Social Sciences Research (London: Bloomsbury, 2024) 264 pp. £76.50 Hb. ISBN: 9781350341418 Framing Aging is the latest in Bloomsbury’s Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life series, boasting an interdisciplinary response to the rising field of gerontology, or the…
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Barr, Philippa Nicole, Uncertainty and Emotion in the 1900 Sydney Plague
Philippa Nicole Barr, Uncertainty and Emotion in the 1900 Sydney Plague (Cambridge Elements: Histories of Emotions and the Senses: Cambridge University Press, 2024) 71 pp. £17.00 Pb. £49.99 Hb. ISBN: 9781108821063 In late 2019 Philippa Barr from the Australian National University signed the contract to write a book about how a pandemic affected the city…
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Gil-Fournier, Abelardo and Parikka, Jussi, Images, Plants and Environments of Media: Living Surfaces
Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka, Images, Plants and Environments of Media: Living Surfaces (The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA: 2024) 328 pp. $45.00 Pb. $44.99 eBook. ISBN: 9780262547956 This complex but engaging work conducts a media archaeological analysis of the aesthetics of planetary surfaces, exploring the technological, artistic and cultural practices that respond to, but also…
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Livingstone, David N., The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea
David N. Livingstone, The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024) 552 pp. £32.00 Hb. £22.40 ebook. ISBN: 9780691236704 David Noel Livingstone’s The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea offers to his readers an examination of how the concept of climate has shaped human thought, society, and…
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Welch, Tana Jean, Advancing Medical Posthumanism through Twenty-First Century American Poetry
Tana Jean Welch, Advancing Medical Posthumanism through Twenty-First Century American Poetry (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024) xv + 200 pp. £99.99. Hb: ISBN 978-3-031-49887-9 Tana Jean Welch inhabits a space where poetry, posthumanism, and medicine converge to show how poetry can provide a posthumanist perspective that activates an ethical understanding of what it means to be ‘human’…
