Author: John Holmes

  • Priestman, Martin, The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times

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    Martin Priestman, The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times(Farnham: Ashgate, 2013). xiv + 310 pp. £70 Hb. ISBN 978-1-4724-1954-5. Erasmus Darwin was a successful doctor, inventor, scientist and poet, a vast man with an even vaster range of interests and capabilities once described by Coleridge as ‘the first literary character in Europe’ (quoted…

  • The Darwins Reconsidered

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    The University of Roehampton will be holding a colloquium on Erasmus and Charles Darwin on Friday 4th September. To see the full programme and to register, click here. There is a discount on the registration fee for members of the BSLS.

  • Engels, Eve-Marie and Thomas F. Glick (eds), The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe

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    Eve-Marie Engels and Thomas F. Glick (eds), The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe , vols 1 and 2 (London: Continuum, 2008), lxxii + 659 pp, £225 hb, ISBN 9780826458339; Thomas F. Glick and Elinor Shaffer (eds), The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe , vols 3 and 4 (London: Bloomsbury Academic,…

  • Reading IRHS guest lecture on literature, evolution and religion

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    This year’s annual guest lecture at the centre for Interdisciplinary Research into the Humanities and Science at the University of Reading will be given by Prof Michael Ruse from Florida State University: Title: Is Evolution a Religion? A View From Literature Venue: The Harborne Lecture Theatre, University of Reading (Building 31 on the campus map) Date: Tuesday 26th May Time:…

  • The 19th Century in the Future conference

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    The Société des Études romantiques et dix-neuviémistes will be holding its 2016 Congress in Paris on the theme of The 19th Century in the Future: Thinking, representing and imagining times to come during the 19th Century. To download the call for papers in English and French, click below: CFP VII Congress SERD Appel Congres SERD Le XIXe siecle au futur

  • ELINAS lecture series on Narrating Science

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    The ELINAS centre at the Friedrich-Alexander University at Erlangen-Nuremberg is hosting a series of lectures on Narrating Science. To see the full programme, click below: Flyer ELINAS-RV-Narrating Science

  • BSLS and JLS Essay Prize

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    The British Society for Literature and Science and the Journal of Literature and Science would like to announce our annual prize for the best new essay by an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science. The deadline for this year’s prize will be 19th June, in order to give…

  • Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books

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    The Royal Society invites entries for the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. The 2015 prize will celebrate the best of outstanding popular science books from around the world. This prestigious prize is open to authors of science books that are accessible and compelling accounts of the world around us or inside us,…

  • Tuberculosis workshop

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    ‘Tuberculosis as a Romantic Disease: Artistic, Historical & Literary Perspectives’ A Workshop funded by the Leverhulme Trust Thursday, 18 June 2015, 4.00 – 6.30pm Room 2.21, Research Beehive, Old Library Building (Level 2), Newcastle University Speakers: Dr Helen Bynum (Historian), ‘Tuberculous Lives – Conforming to the Stereotype?’ Anna Dumitriu (Artist) ‘The Romantic Disease: An Artistic…

  • Diseases of Modern and Fashionable Living workshop

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    ‘The Diseases, Health Risks and Phobias of Modern and Fashionable Living: Victorian Perspectives’ A Workshop funded by the Leverhulme Trust Friday, 8 May 2015, 4.00 – 6.30pm Room 3.38 ARMB (Armstrong Building), Newcastle University Speakers: Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford), ‘Fears and Phobias in Victorian Culture’. Dr Melissa Dickson (University of Oxford) ‘Weak Nerves…

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