A Comprehensive Account of Swooning in English Literature, a Review by Arya Muralidharan
Booth, Naomi. Swoon: A Poetics of Passing Out. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 2021. ISBN 978-1-5261-0118-1. Reviewed by Arya Muralidharan From modern soap operas in which characters overcome with emotion dramatically pass out to medieval depictions of Mary...
Machines, Monsters, and Morality: Science Fiction and Ethical Dilemmas, A Review by Julieta Nava Granados
Newton, Michael, ed. The Origins of Science Fiction. Oxford World´s Classics. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2023. ISBN 978-0-19-889194-9. Reviewed by Julieta Nava Granados What happens when human ambition pushes the boundaries of science too far? From alchemy to...
A Review of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, A Review by Pauline Goodson
Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus. 2d edn. Eds. David Scott Kastan and Matthew Hunter. Norton Critical Edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 2023. ISBN 978-1-324-043-86-7. Reviewed by Pauline Goodson Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus (1604) is one of the most...
Disability Through History, a Review by Alberto Ruiz
Hutchison, Iain, Martin Atherton, and Jaipreet Virdi, eds. Disability and the Victorians: Attitudes, Interventions, Legacies. Disability History. Series eds. Julia Anderson, Coreen McGuire, Aparna Nair, and Walton Schalick. Manchester Univ. Press, 2020. ISBN...
A Rethinking of Magic and Law in Tudor England, a Review by Austin Moser
Klaassen, Frank, and Sharon Hubbs Wright. The Magic of Rogues: Necromancers in Early Tudor England. Magic in History Sourcebooks. Penn State Univ. Press, 2021. ISBN 978-0271-08929-4. Reviewed by Austin Moser In The Magic of Rogues, Frank Klaassen and Sharon...
Understanding the Relationships Between the Body, Technology, and Society, a Review by Tami Andrew
Sweet, Ryan. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. ISBN 978-3-030-78588-8. Reviewed by Tami Andrew Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century...
Music as a Voice for Politics, a Review by Fiona Shea
Mann, Joseph Arthur. Printed Musical Propaganda in Early Modern England. Studies in British Musical Cultures. Clemson SC: Clemson Univ. Press (in association with Liverpool Univ. Press), 2020. ISBN 978-1-949979-23-7. Reviewed by Fiona Shea In Printed Musical...
Fire and Spice, a Review by Rachel Shey
Bassnett, Madeline, and Hillary M. Nunn, eds. In the Kitchen, 1550-1800: Reading English Cooking at Home and Abroad. Food Culture, Food History before 1900. Series ed. Allen J. Grieco. Amsterdam Univ. Press, 2022. ISBN: 978-94-6372-164-6. Reviewed by Rachel Shey...
A Double-Tongued Review of Kaori Nagai’s Imperial Beast Fables, a Review by Taylin Nelson
Nagai, Kaori. Imperial Beast Fables: Animals, Cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Series eds. Susan McHugh, John Robert McKay, and John Miller. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. ISBN 978-3-030-51492-1. Reviewed by Taylin Nelson...
Periodic Problems and Rhythmic Remedies, a Review by Landry Wood
Weiskott, Eric. Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. ISBN 978-0-8122-5264-4. Reviewed by Landry Wood Periodization has, for much of the twentieth century, been the scheme that defined the structure of English...