January 2022

Beyond Slavery, Knowledge of Freedom: Bakary Diaby and Deanna Koretsky review Stolen Life and Beyond Slavery and Abolition

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Fred Moten, Stolen Life (consent not to be a single being). (Duke UP, 2018). 336 pp.; (Paperback, 27.95; ISBN 978-0-8223-7058-1)

Ryan Hanley, Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Black British Writing, c. 1770-1830. (Cambridge UP, 2018). 282 pp; (Paperback, 31.99, ISBN: 9781108468756)

Bakary Diaby, Skidmore College

Deanna Koretsky, Spelman College

 

 

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Diana Pérez Edelman, Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel. Reviewed by Rebecca Nesvet

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Diana Pérez Edelman. Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science, and Medicine. Series eds. Sharon Ruston, Alice Jenkins, and Jessica Howell. Cham CH: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2021. Pp. xii + 180. $119.99. ISBN 978-3-030-73647-7.

Rebecca Nesvet

University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

Bysshe Inigo Coffey, Shelley’s Broken World: Fractured Materiality and Intermitted Song. Reviewed by Michael Neth

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Bysshe Inigo Coffey, Shelley’s Broken World: Fractured Materiality and Intermitted Song (Liverpool University Press, 2021). xxi + 220 pp.; frontispiece + 11 b&w illus. (Hdbk., £90.00; ISBN 9781800855380).

Michael J. Neth

Middle Tennessee State University

Chris Murray's China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome & Emily Sun's On the Horizon of World Literature. Reviewed by Jennifer L. Hargrave

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Chris Murray, China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome: Classics, Sinology, and Romanticism, 1793–1938. (Oxford University Press, 2020). 265 pp., 8 b&w illus. (Hdbk., $85.00; ISBN 9780198767015).

Emily Sun, On the Horizon of World Literature: Forms of Modernity in Romantic England and Republican China. (Fordham University Press, 2021). 167 pp. (Hdbk., $105.00; ISBN 9780823294787).
 

Jennifer L. Hargrave

Baylor University