Month: December 2008

  • Sci-Talk: website for connecting writers with scientists

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    BSLS members and readers of this website may be interested in SciTalk, a website facility run by Dr Ann Lingard and designed to offer “a way for scientists to communicate their expertise and their enthusiasm to writers, and a way for writers to find out about science and how scientists ‘work’ — through personal contact…

  • BSLS Special offer, book discount

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    The latest volume of Essays and Studies is Literature and Science edited by Sharon Ruston. Publishers Boydell & Brewer generously offer BSLS members and readers a 25% discount. Just fill in this form (pdf) and send it to Boydell & Brewer to receive your discount (or alternatively order online). Read Laura Daniels review on the…

  • Musselman, Elizabeth Green, Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in Early Industrial Britain

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    Elizabeth Green Musselman, Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in Early Industrial Britain (New York: State University of New York Press, 2006). 276 pp. £41.25 hb. ISBN 0791466795. If masculinity and science epitomised energy and rationality during Britain’s Industrial Revolution, why and how did so many natural philosophers suffer nervous illnesses? How do these experiences of…

  • Ruston, Sharon (ed), Literature and Science

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    Sharon Ruston (ed.), Literature and Science. Vol. 61. Essays and Studies 2008. (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008). 188 pp. £30.00. ISBN 978-1843841784. Special offer: Order Literature and Science through the BSLS and receive a 25% discount. Just fill in this form (pdf) and send it to Boydell & Brewer to receive your discount. In his…

  • Art and Science Now: The Two Cultures in Question

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    On 7 May 1959, C. P. Snow delivered the Rede Lecture in Cambridge. His influential and controversial address on the subject of ‘The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution’ critiqued an increasing fissure between ‘literary intellectuals’ and ‘natural scientists’. The London Consortium is bringing together the Science Museum, Tate Modern and Birkbeck, University of London,…

  • Brake, Mark L. and Neil Hook, Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science

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    Mark L. Brake and Neil Hook, Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science (Macmillan, 2008), 265pp. £16.99 hb. ISBN 978-0-230-01980-5. When Mark Brake and Neil Hook claim, in Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science, that Johannes Kepler’s Somnium had “grasped the bond between life forms and habitat” two centuries before…

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