Call for Reviewers: Journal of Literature and Science

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Dear BSLS Members,

IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR!

The Journal of Literature and Science http://www.literatureandscience.org is once again looking for reviewers to review various articles published in the last year to 18 months in the field of literature and science.

Please find below a number of articles that we would like to offer for review. Its largely first come, first served, so do get in touch with an offer to review a specific article by emailing Michelle at m.geric@westminster.ac.uk

I would also be very happy to receive suggestions for other relevant articles for review that aren’t listed below – please do let me know.

Reviews should be 750 words long. For more details, please follow the link: http://www.literatureandscience.org or contact me at gericm@westminster.ac.uk to register your interest.

SUGGESTED ARTICLES:

Donovan E. Tann, “Experimental Science and Speculation in Cavendish’s Convent of Pleasure.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 60. 3 (2020): 463-483.

Christian Lewis, “‘A Malady of Interpretation’: Performances of Hypochondria in Jane Austen.” Nineteenth Century Studies 32 (2020): 22-37.

Adam Kozaczka, “The precariousness of human life: Jane Austen, pandemic, and the coping mechanisms of nineteenth-century literature.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 43:5, (2021): 541-546.  

Paul Giles, “‘By Degrees’: Jane Austen’s Chronometric Style of World Literature.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 75. 3 (2020): 265–293.

Anirudha Dhanawade, “Crystals, Crystallization, and Crystallography in Hegel, Stendhal, and Ruskin.” Nineteenth Century Studies 32 (2020): 1–21.

Yan Rae X.  “Natural history, homeopathy, and the real horrors of Le Fanu’s Carmilla.Nineteenth-Century Contexts 43. 4 (2021): 403-416.

Adelene Buckland, “Charles Dickens, Man of Science.” Victorian Literature and Culture 49. 3 (2021): 423–455.

Andrew Bishop, “Making sympathy “vicious” on The Island of Dr. Moreau.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 43. 2 (2021): 205-220.

Jayne Hildebrand, “Environmental Desire in The Mill on the Floss.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 76. 2 (2021): 192–222.

Gregory Tate, “Evolution, Idealism, and Individualism in May Kendall’s Comic Verse.” English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 63. 3 (2020): 429-451. 

Michael Thomas Gaffney, “The Birth of the Ice Age: on Narrative and Climate History in the Nineteenth Century.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 42. 5 (2020): 567-580.

Gordon Bates, “Arthur Conan Doyle in Mesmeric Edinburgh and Hypnotic London.” Victoriographies 11. 3 (2021): 314-330.

Sophia C. Jochem, “Fungi and the City: Charles Dickens’s Urban Poetics of Decay.” Dickens Quarterly, 39. 1 (2022): 42-61. 

Laura Dassow Walls, “The Sphinx at the Crossroads: Transcendentalism Meets the Anthropocene.” ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture 67. 3 (2021): 697-730. 

Tyson Stolte, “The Meaning of Matter: Atoms, Energy, and the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.” Victorian Studies 63. 3 (2021) 354-376.

Amanda Paxton, “The Hard Math of Beauty: Gerard Manley Hopkins and “Spectral Numbers”. Victorian Studies 63. 2 (2021): 246-270. 

Mark Celeste, “The “bond of the sea”: Conrad, Coal, and Entropy.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 42. 5 (2020): 509-522.

Anastasia Klimchynskaya, “The Laboratory of the Mind’s Eye: Scientific Romance as Thought Experiment and Jules Verne’s Extraordinary Voyages.” Configurations 29. 3 (2021): 289-320. 

Ulf Houe, “The Protoplasmic Imagination: Ernst Haeckel and H. P. Lovecraft.” Configurations 30. 1 (2022): 47-76. 

Kevin Hart, “‘Nondescript Specimens’: Herbert Spencer’s Social Theory in Ulysses.” James Joyce Quarterly 57. 3 (2020): 319-335..

Justin Prystash, “Leaning from the Human: Virginia Woolf, Olaf Stapledon, and the Challenge of Behaviorism.” Configurations 28. 4 (2020): 433-457. 

Rebekah Taylor-Wiseman, “Spring and All’s Anthropocenic Collage: Compressed Time, Deep Time, and the Urgency of Imagination.” William Carlos Williams Review 38. 1 (2021): 1-20. 

Yanfang Tong, “Memory as Imagination: Mind Science in Bellow’s Short Fiction.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 22. 3 (2020): 240-261.

Hannah Cooper-Smithson, “Toward a Pandemic Poetics: Contamination, Infiltration, and Dispersal in Inger Christensen’s Alphabet.” Configurations 29. 4 (2021): 405-416. 

Moritz Ingwersen, “Media Exposure: Communicable Disease and Communication Networks in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash and Don DeLillo’s White Noise.” Configurations 29. 4 (2021): 417-433. 

Emily Horton, “‘What’s Real?’: Digital Technology and Negative Affect in Jennifer Egan’s Look at Me and The Keep.” Contemporary Women’s Writing 15. 2 (2021): 226–243.

Karen Ya-Chu Yang, “Female Biologists and the Practice of Dialogical Connectivity in Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer.” Journal of Modern Literature 45. 1 (2021): 74-86. 

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