Tag: 2026
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Kistler, Jordan, The British Public and the British Museum: Shaping and Sharing Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century
Jordan Kistler, The British Public and the British Museum: Shaping and Sharing Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh University Press, 2026) viii + 307 pp. £95.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781399523752 In the early 1920s, George McCready Price visited the American Museum of Natural History in New York and he did not like what he saw. As…
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Klimchynskaya, Anastasia, Science Fiction and the Modern World: The Emergence of a Genre in a Revolutionary Age
Anastasia Klimchynskaya, Science Fiction and the Modern World: The Emergence of a Genre in a Revolutionary Age (Liverpool University Press, 2026) 206 pp. $130.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781836244905 Anastasia Klimchynskaya’s Science Fiction and the Modern World: The Emergence of a Genre in a Revolutionary Age is a significant intervention in science fiction studies that reconsiders the origins of…
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Prkachin, Yvan, Wired Together: The Montreal Neurological Institute and the Origins of Neuroscience
Yvan Prkachin, Wired Together: The Montreal Neurological Institute and the Origins of Neuroscience (University of Chicago Press, 2026) 296 pp. $115 Hb. $35 Pb. ISBN: 022684546X Wired Together: The Montreal Neurological Institute and the Origins of Neuroscience by Yvan Prkachin, as the title suggests, attempts to set the record straight on the origins of neuroscience,…
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Reznicek, Matthew L., Tales of Health: Illness, Disability and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale
Matthew L. Reznicek, Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2026) 256 pp. £160.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781805966807 In this detailed, multi-text study of the National Tale genre, Matthew Reznicek demonstrates the enduring importance of the categories of illness, body and health to ideas of nationhood and…
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Foster, Kate and Crozier, Molly (eds), The Human and the Machine in Literature and Culture: Cultures of Automation
Kate Foster and Molly Crozier (eds), The Human and the Machine in Literature and Culture: Cultures of Automation (New York: Routledge, 2026) 216pp. £116.00 Hb. £34.39 e-book. ISBN: 9781032895871 The subtitle of The Human and the Machine in Literature and Culture – Cultures of Automation – is a useful shorthand for what this collection most…
