Month: April 2009

  • New BSLS Executive Committee

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    As announced at our AGM at the Reading Conference, none of the vacancies on the BSLS Executive was contested, and the following officers were elected unopposed: Chair: Michael Whitworth (proposed by Sharon Ruston & John Holmes) Secretary: Kelley Swain (proposed by John Holmes & Melanie Keene) Treasurer: Dan Cordle (proposed by Jon Adams & Sharon…

  • Levine, George, Realism, Ethics and Secularism

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    George Levine, Realism, Ethics and Secularism: Essays on Victorian Literature and Science (Cambridge: CUP, 2008). ix+283 pp. £50 hb. ISBN 0-521-88526-3. In Realism, Ethics and Secularism, George Levine reaffirms once again his position as one of the most thoughtful and relevant critics working on literature and science over the last thirty years. (For my review…

  • BSLS book prize awarded to George Levine

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    The British Society for Literature and Science is pleased to announce the winner of its annual book prize. The prize of £150, for the best monograph or collection of essays published in 2008, has been awarded to George Levine for Realism, Ethics and Secularism: Essays on Victorian Literature and Science (Cambridge University Press). The book…

  • Carroll, Victoria, Science and Eccentricity

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    Victoria Carroll, Science and Eccentricity: Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008). 254 pp. £60 hb. ISBN 1851969403. Victoria Carroll’s Science and Eccentricity: Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences explores an astounding range of material from anecdotes about alligator wrestling to pastoral idylls about the…

  • Das, Nandini (ed), Robert Greene’s Planetomachia

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    Kirk Melnikoff

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    Nandini Das, ed. Robert Greene’s Planetomachia (1585) (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007). lv +168pp. £55.00 hb. ISBN 0-7546-5661-6. (BSLS members receive a discount on all Ashgate titles) A fitting contribution to Ashgate’s new “Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity” series, Nandini Das’s edition of Robert Greene’s Planetomachia (1585) affords access to a significant cultural artifact from…

  • Radick, Gregory, The Simian Tongue

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    Gregory Radick, The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate About Animal Language. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). 575 pp. £31 hb. ISBN 0226702243. Gregory’s Radick’s much-welcome monograph recovers and adroitly lays bare the shifting evolutionary implications, institutional fortunes and intellectual capital of one of the most fascinating experimental paradigms in the history of science: the…

  • Elwick, James, Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences

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    James Elwick, Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared assumptions, 1820–1858 (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2007). 233 pp. £60 hb. ISBN 1851969209. James Elwick’s book is a fine-grained analysis of the diverse methodologies and philosophies of British ‘life researchers’ in the decades before the Origin of Species. ‘Life researcher’ is his umbrella term for…

  • Cfp: Thomas de Quincey, Manchester and Medicine 1785-1859

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    A one-day conference on this subject will be held at the University of Salford on Friday 4th December 2009. It has been 150 years since Thomas de Quincey died on the 8th December 1859. Conference papers are invited on any topic concerning his work, Manchester, and medicine, during the period of his lifetime (1785-1859). Plenary…

  • Special Issue of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net

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    Science, Technology and the Senses, edited by Sibylle Erle and Laurie Garrison We are delighted to announce the release of this special issue of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net available at http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/. Contributors to the volume include: Laurie Garrison and Sibylle Erle,, ‘Introduction’ Sibylle Erle, ‘Blake, Colour and the Truchsessian Gallery: Modelling the Mind…

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