Carmen Birkle and Johanna Heil (eds.).Communicating Disease: Cultural Representations of American Medicine. American Studies – A Monograph Series 236. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013, xxxiv + 465 pp., € 56.00.

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
2. Frontmatter
3. Special Issue: Literature and Science
4. Articles
5. Literature and Science: Introduction
6. Science Studies and Literature
7. Environmental Literature and the Ambiguities of Science
8. Life Sciences and Life Writing
9. A Feeling for Life: Biosemiotics, Autopoiesis and the Orders of Discourse
10. The Living Diffractions of Matter and Text: Narrative Agency, Strategic Anthropomorphism, and how Interpretation Works
11. Quantum Physics and Literature
12. ‘Secret Integrations’: Leibniz, Mathematics, and Literature
13. ‘Pity Party’: Metaphors for a Banned Emotion
14. ‘Primitive Purity and Shortness’: The Language of Science in Science and Literature
15. The Chromosome as Concept and Metaphor in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome
16. Reviews
17. Ashby Kinch.Imago Mortis: Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture. Visualising the Middle Ages 9. Leiden/Boston, MA: Brill, 2013, xvi + 301 pp., 68 figures, € 136.00/$ 189.00. David Watt.The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’s Series. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013, xi + 258 pp., 10 figures, £ 70.00.
18. Roland Weidle. Englische Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit: Eine Einführung. Grundlagen der Anglistik und Amerikanistik 37. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2013, 280 pp., € 19.95.
19. Doris Feldmann and Christian Krug (eds.).Viktorianismus: Eine literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Einführung. Grundlagen der Anglistik und Amerikanistik 38. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2013, 207 pp., 9 illustr., € 19.95.
20. John Rodden and John Rossi.The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell. Cambridge Introductions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, xiv + 146 pp., £ 44.99 (hb)/£ 14.99 (pb).
21. Susanne Peters, Klaus Stierstorfer, Dirk Vanderbeke and Laurenz Volkmann (eds.).Film. Parts I & II. Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture 3. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2013, 692 pp., 74 illustr., € 32.50 (Part I), € 32.50 (Part II).
22. Anna-Margaretha Horatschek, Yvonne Rosenberg and Daniel Schäbler (eds.).Navigating Cultural Spaces: Maritime Places. Spatial Practices: An Interdisciplinary Series in Cultural History, Geography and Literature 18. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2014, 340 pp., € 72.00/$ 96.00.
23. Susanna Layh.Finstere neue Welten: Gattungsparadigmatische Transformationen der literarischen Utopie und Dystopie. Text & Theorie 13. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014, 320 pp., € 48.00.
24. Roman Bartosch. EnvironMentality: Ecocriticism and the Event of Postcolonial Fiction. Nature, Culture and Literature 9. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2013, 315 pp., € 78.00/$ 104.00.
25. Carmen Birkle and Johanna Heil (eds.).Communicating Disease: Cultural Representations of American Medicine. American Studies – A Monograph Series 236. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013, xxxiv + 465 pp., € 56.00.
26. Books Received