Tag: 2025
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Kendal, Evie, Science Fiction and the Ethics of Artificial Wombs
Evie Kendal, Science Fiction and the Ethics of Artificial Wombs (London: Bloomsbury, 2025) 240 pp. £76.50 Hb. ISBN: 9781350542976 Ectogenesis, the name given to technologies that allow gestation external to the human body through artificial wombs, is one of the most important current fields of study in biotechnology and reproductive science. The ethical discussions of…
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Parashar, Kunjana, They Gather Around Me, The Animals
Kunjana Parashar, They Gather Around Me, The Animals (NFSPS Press, 2025) 88 pp. £13.99 Pb. ISBN: 979-8-9929766-0-1 This debut poetry collection begins with a dedication like no other—non-human, ecocentric, spanning species, substances, phenomena and processes, Parashar’s deceptively humble lexicon brings immediate reverence to members and mechanisms of an ecosystem sometimes evoking twenty-nine images within fourteen…
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Jay, Mike, Free Radicals: How a Group of Romantic Experimenters Gave Birth to Psychedelic Science
Mike Jay, Free Radicals: How a Group of Romantic Experimenters Gave Birth to Psychedelic Science (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025) 382 pp. + 27 bw illustrations, $22.00 PB, ISBN: 9780300282610. Mike Jay’s Free Radicals: How a Group of Romantic Experimenters Gave Birth to Psychedelic Science purports to be a ‘revised and updated edition’ of…
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Price, Elfed Huw, William Lawrence and the Organ of Mind: The Theology, Medicine and Politics of the Brain
Elfed Huw Price, William Lawrence and the Organ of Mind: The Theology, Medicine and Politics of the Brain (London: UCL Press, 2025) 240 pp. £20.29 Pb. ISBN: 9781787357907 Today, the assertion that ‘the brain is the organ of mind’ is treated as an almost self-evident scientific truth. Yet, as Elfed Huw Price demonstrates in his…
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Heffernan, Conor, Emma Tonkin, Linda Flores Ohlson (eds), Zombies in Contemporary Culture: Journeys, Bodies, Pandemics and Politics
Conor Heffernan, Emma Tonkin and Linda Flores Ohlson (eds), Zombies in Contemporary Culture: Journeys, Bodies, Pandemics and Politics (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2025) 256 pp. £75.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781837723034 Zombies in Contemporary Culture: Journeys, Bodies, Pandemics and Politics, edited by Conor Heffernan, Emma Tonkin and Linda Flores Ohlson, is a timely contribution to the…
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Armstrong, Patrick, Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction: Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett
Patrick Armstrong, Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction: Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) 256 pp. £85.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-3504-2018-2 Patrick Armstrong’s Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction: Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett joins a growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship on modernism’s engagements with science, foregrounding the cultural and aesthetic consequences of microscopic vision. Focusing on what Armstrong…
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Keisman, Eleanor, New Animal
Eleanor Keisman, New Animal (Broken Tribe Press, 2025) 115 pp. $12.95 Pb. ISBN: 9781965412312. Eleanor Keisman’s debut novella, New Animal (2025), is an evocative climate science fiction tale of survival that is less about escaping climate distress and more about remembering the importance of relying on one another despite it all. What makes Keisman’s cli-fi…
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Cole, Lucinda, The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities
Lucinda Cole, The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) xii, 260 pp. £87.50 ebook £109.99 Hb. ISBN: 978-3031927928 Lucinda Cole’s The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities, published as part of the series, Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature, takes up the vexing and urgent question of how…
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Skuse, Alanna, Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature
Alanna Skuse, Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)246 pp. Open access eBook. ISBN: 978-3-032-04565-2. £44.99 Hb. ISBN: 978-3-032-04564-5 Hurt Feelings is an exploration of the range of functions to which self-wounding could be put in early modern literature. Alanna Skuse analyses five categories of function: persuasion (chapter 2), protest…
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Riccardi, Silvia, Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art, and the Body
Silvia Riccardi, Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art, and the Body, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) 242 pp. £109.99 Hb, ISBN 978-3-031-64364-4 Silvia Riccardi’s Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art and the Body brings together elements of the visual, literary, and scientific in a beautifully illustrated and incredibly detailed volume. Throughout the work, Riccardi presents a fascinating interplay between the…
