Author: Gavin Budge
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February 2018 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in February 2018 Melissa Bailes, Questioning Nature. British Women’s Scientific Writing & Literary Originality 1750-1830 David Bradshaw, Laura Marcus, Rebecca Roach (eds), Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity Leif Weatherby, Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx Kenneth Asher,…
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January 2018 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in January 2018 Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture: Medicine, Knowledge, and the Spectacle of Invisibility Anna Katharina Schaffner, Exhaustion: A History Chad Luck, The Body of Property: Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession A David Redish, The…
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December 2017 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in December 2017 Rachel Ablow, Victorian Pain David Thorley, Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain Lena Wånggren, Gender, Technology and the New Woman Chris Danta and Helen Groth (eds), Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and Science of the Mind Megan Coyer, Literature, Medicine and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press:…
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Call for reviewers
The BSLS Reviews site, <https://www.bsls.ac.uk/reviews/>, which publishes c 60 reviews a year, is looking for suitably qualified reviewers for some books that have come in recently, listed on <https://www.bsls.ac.uk/reviews/currently-seeking-reviewers/>. Reviews are c 1000w, and are generally due within three months. If you are interested, please contact the Reviews Editor, Gavin Budge, on <G.Budge@herts.ac.uk>, with some…
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November 2017 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in November 2017 Michael Lundblad (ed.), Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human Maureen Tuthill, Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel: Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine Paul Budra and Clifford Werier (eds), Shakespeare and Consciousness Michael Burke and Emily…
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October 2017 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in October 2017 Peter Garratt (ed), The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture J D Fleming, The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England: John Wilkins and the Universal Character John Holmes and Sharon Ruston (eds), The Routledge Research Companion to…
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Howard Marchitello and Evelyn Tribble (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science
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Gavin Budge
Howard Marchitello and Evelyn Tribble (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2017) £119.00 EPUB, PDF, £149.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-137-46778-2 Some ‘dyed in the wool’ scientists and literary researchers might balk at the idea of merging their disciplines. This highly informative book of specially commissioned essays, however, will help…
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Peter Garratt (ed) The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture
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Gavin Budge
Peter Garratt (ed) The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2016) xvii + 259 pp. £66.99 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-137-59329-0 Academic and cultural institutions have grown increasingly ambitious in their approach to interdisciplinary and collaborative study. The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture is an edited collection which showcases…
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September 2017 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in September 2017 Laura White, The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World Matthew Escobar, The Persistence of the Human: Consciousness, Meta-body and Survival in Contemporary Film and Literature Karin Koehler, Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication: Letters, Telegrams and…
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August 2017 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in August 2017 Katharina Boehm, Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood: Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman Janina Wellmann, The Form of Becoming. Embryology and the…
