Month: June 2010

  • Reiss, Benjamin, Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture

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    Benjamin Reiss, Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008), pp. 237. £34.50 hb. ISBN: 0-226-70963-9. £14 pb ISBN: 0-226-70964-7. When Dickens first toured America in 1842, he decided to visit many of the country’s public charity institutions. At Boston he looked around the State Hospital…

  • Book reviews indexed by reviewer

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    So that readers of the BSLS website can readily trace the authors of BSLS book reviews, I have set up a new index of book reviews ordered by reviewer, to complement the existing indexes by author and date. You can find this index in the main menu down the side of this page, or by…

  • George Levine reviews Brian Boyd

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    George Levine, winner of the BSLS book prize for 2008, has written a review essay on Brian Boyd’s much discussed new book On the Origin of Stories, which was shortlisted for the BSLS book prize for 2009. To read his essay, click here.

  • Boyd, Brian, On the Origin of Stories

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    Brian Boyd, On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009), xxii + 540 pp. £25.95 hb. ISBN 978-0-674-03357-3. George Levine, winner of the BSLS book prize for 2008, reviews On the Origin of Stories, shortlisted for the BSLS book prize for 2009: The recent upsurge…

  • Jackson, Noel, Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry

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    Noel Jackson, Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). pp. 288+xiv. £50.00 hb. ISBN 978-0521869379. It is by now a long time since the supposed hostility of Romantic poets to science was shown to be a myth—an extrapolation of Wordsworth’s ‘we murder to dissect’ made by C. P. Snow, among others,…

  • Call for Papers: Challenging Models in the Face of Uncertainty

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    Deadline: Wednesday 30 June, 2010 The concluding conference in the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series Modelling Futures: Understanding Risk and Uncertainty. Tuesday, 28 September 2010 to Thursday, 30 September 2010 Location: Gillespie Conference Centre, Clare College, Queens Road, Cambridge and Mill Lane Lecture Rooms 2010. All disciplines are welcome, and inter-disciplinary treatments are particularly encouraged.  For…

  • Call for papers: The Human and its Limits, University of Bergen 9-10 December 2010

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    Conference organized by the research group Literature and Science, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, The University of Bergen 9-10 December 2010 Invited speakers include: Nick Daly, Professor of English Literature, University College, Dublin; Joanna Zylinska, Reader in New Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of London; Dr. Paola Spinozzi, English literature, University of Ferrara;…

  • John Tyndall Symposium, Thursday 24th June 2010

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    The symposium aims to bring together researchers interested in the life, letters and works of John Tyndall, and to discuss the current international project to transcribe his letters of correspondence. The symposium will be held in the Leeds Humanities Research Institute, on Clarendon Place within the University of Leeds. For details, see http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ph07maf/tyndall.htm. Registration fee £5, to…

  • On the Human

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    BSLS members may be interested in the National Humanities Center’s project ‘On the Human’, which is an online forum for humanities scholars and scientists to ‘share their ideas and research’.  A number of eminent scholars in the literature and science field have published essays in the forum, including N. Katherine Hayles (‘Distributing/Disturbing the Chinese Room’)…

  • Readings and Representations of the Seventeenth Century

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    ‘Such Total and Prodigious Alteration’ / ‘The Wounds May Be Again Bound Up’: Readings and Representations of the Seventeenth Century An academic conference to be held in Chetham’s Library, Manchester, 28th-29th January, 2011 During the restoration and eighteenth century, the civil war period was consistently represented as a traumatic break in the history of England…

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