Month: March 2008
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BSLS book prize winner
The committee of the BSLS is delighted to announce that Ralph O’Connor’s book The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856 (U of Chicago P, 2007) has been awarded the Society’s first book prize. The book is a deeply-researched, ambitious and elegant account of early nineteenth-century literary and scientific writing on…
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Amigoni, David, Colonies, Cults and Evolution
David Amigoni, Colonies, Cults and Evolution: Literature, Science and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Writing (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007). 237 pp. £50 hb. ISBN 978-0521884587. The last decade has witnessed an increasingly acrimonious divide between those scholars who seek to claim Darwinism for literature— to expose the discursive, intertextual, and even deconstructive qualities of nineteenth-century evolutionary writing—…
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BSLS book prize shortlist announced
The committee of the BSLS is delighted to announce the shortlist for the Society’s annual prize for the best book on literature and science published the previous calendar year. The prize is awarded for the first time this year, and the winner will be announced at the conference in Keele at the end of March.…
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CFP: Special issue of Victorian Studies on Darwin
2009 is both the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species. Victorian Studies will mark the occasion with a special issue on “Darwin and the Evolution of Victorian Studies.�? The study of Darwin and the relationship of his life and work to Victorian culture has become an industry.…
