Tag: 2024
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Waller-Peterson, Belinda, Womb Work: Healing Narratives as Reparative Praxis in Black Women’s Literature
Belinda Waller-Peterson, Womb Work: Healing Narratives as Reparative Praxis in Black Women’s Literature (South Carolina: Clemson University Press, 2024) 156 pp. $130 Hb. ISBN: 9781638040644 This book is deservedly on the BSLS 2024 Book Prize shortlist. It is impressive in a number of ways and it feels politically urgent. The series it is published in…
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Harrison, Jaime, Digital Culture in Contemporary Fiction
Jaime Harrison, Digital Culture in Contemporary Fiction (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2024), 208 pp. £80 Hb. ISBN:9781802074710 The texts that Jaime Harrison considers in Digital Culture in Contemporary Fiction are part of a broader discussion of contemporary concerns about the way that digital culture, particularly issues of privacy and digital surveillance, can be witnessed in…
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Dimick, Sarah,Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures
Sarah Dimick, Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures (Ohio: Columbia UP, 2024) 328 pp. £30 Pb. ISBN: 9780231209250 Sarah Dimick has coined the term ‘climate arrhythmias’ to describe that feeling the seasons are not working as they should be or as they usually have done in the past (p. 2). These arrhythmias can be experienced…
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Hamann-Rose, Paul, Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction
Paul Hamann-Rose, Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction, Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) 243 pp. £99.00 Hb. £79.99 eBook. ISBN: 9783031531002 In 1953, when James Watson and Francis Crick unveiled the double helix structure of DNA, some marvelled at the molecular blueprint of life, while others speculated…
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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…
