The British Society for Literature and Science reviews books on all aspects of literature and science on the BSLS Reviews website. We aim to be a comprehensive resource on books in the field published since 2010, including subdisciplines such as literature and medicine, cognitive neuroscience criticism, ecocriticism, cyberculture, Gothic and science etc. Please follow these links for all current book reviews by period:
- General and Theory
- Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
- Romantic and Victorian
- Modern and Contemporary
Discounts on OUP titles are available to BSLS members. Palgrave are offering an introductory discount on the Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine for BSLS members.
You can find a list of books available to review here. If you are interested in reviewing one of these titles, please contact our Reviews Editor, Sharon Ruston (s.ruston@lancaster.ac.uk). Books for which we are seeking review are regularly posted through our Twitter account @TheBSLS. If you would like to submit a book to be reviewed or to review a book, please contact Sharon.
These are some of the most recent reviews (listed in chronological order, most recent at the bottom)
- Leah Sidi, Sarah Kane's Theatre of Psychic Life
- Martina Zamparo, Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
- Alice Hall (ed.), Contemporary Literature and the Body: A Critical Introduction
- Lafcadio Hearn, Insect Literature
- Curtis Runstedler, Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature
- Alan Gordon, Time Travel: Tourism and the Rise of the Living History Museum in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada
- Lara Choksey, Narrative in the Age of the Genome: Genetic Worlds
- Ruta Baublyté Kaufmann, The Architecture of Space-Time in the Novels of Jane Austen
- Marie Allitt, Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care
- Douglas R. J. Small, Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930
- Gregory Lynall, Imagining Solar Energy: The Power of the Sun in Literature, Science and Culture
- D. Graham Burnett and Justin E. H. Smith (eds), Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses
- Angus Fletcher, Storythinking: The New Science of Narrative Intelligence
- Joan Passey, Cornish Gothic, 1830-1912
- Stuart Murray, Medical Humanities and Disability Studies: In/Disciplines
- Stefan Schöberlein, Writing the Brain: Material Minds and Literature, 1800–1880
- Mark Foster Gage (ed.), Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses Across Art, Architecture, and Philosophy
- Chloe Germaine, The Dark Matter of Children’s ‘Fantastika’ Literature: Speculative Entanglements
- Paul Matthews, Transparent Minds in Science Fiction: An Introduction to Alien, AI and Post-Human Consciousness
- Jolene Zigarovitch, Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Reviews are also listed by author and title, by date of publication and by reviewer.
