FID Anglo-American Culture4 new #VictorianStudies arrivals!
Asha Hornsby's book "Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture" analyses the British #antivivisection movement and its discourses around #animalprotection in #VictorianLiterature & science & the press
"Victorian Automata: Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century", edited by Suzy Anger & Thomas Vranken explores the concept of the automaton (a forerunner to robots or artificial intelligence), both mechanical & human, in #VictorianCulture & #VictorianLiterature in 15 essays
"Writing the Brain" by Stefan Schöberlein looks at how C19 literature in Britain & the US incorporated discourses from the emerging neuroscience. Authors discussed incl #GeorgeCombe #CharlesDickens #EmilyDickinson #PlinyEarle #BenjaminRush & #AlfredTennyson
"Re-Reading the Age of Innovation", edited by Louisa Kane, collects 14 essays on the subject of newness: new inventions, new forms in #VictorianLiterature & #Modernism - 1830–1950
Authors discussed incl #Dickens #Conrad #Hardy #Woolf #CharlotteMew #ElíasMar & #WalterFrancesWhite
