Month: December 2007

  • Popular Science Books event, Imperial College

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    Registration is now open for a one-day event discussing Popular Science Books to be held at Imperial College’s South Kensington Campus, 22nd February 2008. Literary critics, historians, writers, illustrators, publishers, prize-givers, reviewers, readers, booksellers, teachers (and others) are all invited to take part in what we hope will be a day of lively discussions. Places…

  • News: First Annual BSLS Book Prize

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    The British Society for Literature and Science is delighted to announce the launch of the first annual BSLS Book Prize. The prize will be awarded to the best book published in 2007 in the field of literature and science. We therefore invite nominations, including self-nominations, for books to be considered. Monographs, edited volumes, editions, and…

  • Crawford, Robert (ed), Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science

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    Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science, edited by Robert Crawford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). 234 + xvi pp. £19.99 hb. ISBN 978-0-19-925812-3. This is primarily a book about contemporary poetry, and what poetry can do now, as seen through its engagement with aspects of contemporary science. It is only fleetingly a book about ‘science and poetry’, where the…

  • Review section: new feature for the site

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    We’re delighted to announce our new reviews section here on the BSLS site. To open with we have reviews of works by George Levine, Robert Crawford and Pamela Gossin. In the future we plan to add reviews of a range of texts and events concerned with science and literature provided by members of the society.…

  • Gossin, Pamela, Thomas Hardy’s Novel Universe

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    Pamela Gossin, Thomas Hardy’s Novel Universe: Astronomy, Cosmology, and Gender in the Post-Darwinian World (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007). xiii + 300 pp. £50 hb. ISBN 9780754603368 (BSLS members receive a discount on all Ashgate titles) There were gloomy deserts in those southern skies such as the north shows scarcely an example of […] The inspection…

  • Call for papers: scientists as readers of literature

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    Abstracts are invited for a proposed panel on Scientists as Readers of Literature for the ‘Evidence of Reading, Reading the Evidence’ conference to be held at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, 21-23 July 2008. Papers may discuss the literary reading of scientists, natural philosophers or natural historians of any period. Please send…

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