Author: Gavin Budge

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in July 2017 Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence Gillian Beer, Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-Hyun Kim (eds.), Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power Andrew…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in June 2017 Graham Harman, Immaterialism: Objects and Social Theory Marc Flandreau, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: a Financial History of Victorian Britain Somogy Varga, Naturalism, Interpretation and Mental Disorder Suzanne Bailey, Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry Mark Offord,…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in May 2017 Barbara K. Seeber, Jane Austen and Animals Jan Golinski, The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science Stephanie Shirilan, Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy Peter de Bolla, The Architecture of Concepts:…

Call for Reviewers The BSLS Reviews site, which publishes c 60 reviews a year, is looking for suitably qualified reviewers for some books that have come in recently. Reviews are c 1000w, and are generally due within three months. You can find a list of the books available for review here. If you are interested,…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in April 2017 Devin Griffiths, The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature between the Darwins Jonathan Strauss, Human Remains: Medicine, Death and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris Evaldas Nekrašas, The Positive Mind: Its Development and Impact on Modernity and Postmodernity Sam Solnick, Poetry…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in March 2017 Rosalind Ridley, Peter Pan and the Mind of J M Barrie: An Exploration of Cognition and Consciousness Karen Bourrier, The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel Laura Marcus, Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema Deborah Lupton,…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in February 2017 Miriam Wallraven, Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture: Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches Kathleen Frederickson, The Ploy of Instinct: Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance Ayesha Ramachandran, The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in January 2017 Wyatt Bonikowski, Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction Jon Klancher, Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age Richard D Fulton and Peter H Hoffenberg…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in December 2016 Anne Green, Changing France: Literature and Material Culture in the Second Empire Will Tattersdill, Science, Fiction and the Fin-de-Siècle Periodical Press Katja Guenther, Localization and its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines A list of books for…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in November 2016 Anna Henchman, The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature Tommy Dickinson, ‘Curing Queers’: Mental Nurses and their Patients, 1935-74 Gowan Dawson, Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and…