Reviews

The British Society for Literature and Science reviews books on all aspects of literature and science on our website. Please follow these links for all current book reviews by period:

• General and Theory
• Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
• Romantic and Victorian
• Modern

These are the most recent reviews:

• Stephen H. Blackwell, The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov’s Art and the Worlds of Science
• Brian Boyd, On the Origin of Stories (also discussed in a review essay on Evolutionary Criticism and Epic Poetry)
  
• Jonathan Gottschall, The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence and the World of Homer (in a review essay on Evolutionary Criticism and Epic Poetry)
• John Holmes, Darwin’s Bards
• Noel Jackson, Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry
• Leah Knight, Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England
• Clinton Machann, Masculinity in Four Victorian Epics: A Darwinist Reading (in a review essay on Evolutionary Criticism and Epic Poetry)
• Vike Plock, Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity
• Benjamin Reiss, Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture

Reviews are also listed by author and title, by date of publication and by reviewer.

If you would like to submit a book to be reviewed, please send it to Dr John Holmes, BSLS Reviews Editor, Dept. of English and American Literature, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AA, U.K. If you would like to review books, please email me at j.r.holmes@reading.ac.uk , letting me know your particular field of interest.