Category: Reviews
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Martin, Meredith, Poetry’s Data: Digital Humanities and the History of Prosody
Meredith Martin, Poetry’s Data: Digital Humanities and the History of Prosody (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025) 224 pp. £84 Hb. £30 Pb. ISBN: 9780691254678 Meredith Martin’s Poetry’s Data is a large-scale attempt to bring together literary studies, linguistics, digital humanities, and critical archives studies. It presents a compelling case on why we should critically examine…
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Lars Chittka, The Mind of a Bee; Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds
Lars Chittka, The Mind of a Bee (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022) 272 pp. £30 Hb. £16.99 Pb. ISBN: 9780691180472 Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds (Random House, 2022), 416 pp. £10.99 Pb. £9.99 e-book. ISBN: 9780141991146 Both books reviewed here are invitations to travel to imagined worlds: to the…
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Markovits, Stefanie, The Number Sense of Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Stefanie Markovits, The Number Sense of Nineteenth-Century British Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025) 240 pp. $100 Hb. ISBN: 9780198937791 ‘Number sense’ is the term Stefanie Markovits uses to describe the numerical thinking that permeates the lines and pages of nineteenth-century novels and poems, crafting patterns across the tapestry of poetic imagery and narrative arcs. As she…
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Klinger, Sebastian P., Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899-1929
Sebastian P. Klinger, Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899-1929 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025) 255 pp. £45.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781421450803 In Sleep Works, historian and literary scholar Sebastian P. Klinger sets out to provide a ‘comprehensive account’ of early twentieth-century scientific, pharmaceutical and literary understandings of sleep (134). By examining developments in…
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Desmond, Adrian, Reign of the Beast: The Atheist World of W. D. Saull and his Museum of Evolution
Adrian Desmond, Reign of the Beast: The Atheist World of W. D. Saull and his Museum of Evolution (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2024) xii+664 Free e-book. £25.46 Pb. £37.36 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-80511-240-2 In 1851, Admiral Sir John Ross returned to London from the Arctic expedition that had discovered the sad fate of Franklin’s lost expedition.…
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Chi, Chienyn, Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature
Chienyn Chi, Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) xvii + 143 pp. £109.99 Hb. £89.99 ebook. ISBN: 978-3-031-59891-3 Chienyn Chi’s work is a bold attempt to decolonize psychiatric and psychoanalytic discourse by revealing how theories of madness are deeply entangled in imperial histories and power…
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Call for Reviewers
CALL FOR REVIEWERS: PUBLISH WITH US Journal of Literature and Science The Journal of Literature and Science http://www.literatureandscience.org is 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…
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Cogan, Lucy and O’Connell, Michelle, eds, Life, Death and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century
Lucy Cogan and Michelle O’Connell, eds, Life, Death and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) 280 pp. £119.99 Hb. ISBN: 9783021133626 The long nineteenth century was a time of vast scientific advances, when new knowledge of chemistry, anatomy and medicine developed at an unprecedented rate, changing the way people interpreted the world…
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Dawson, Gowan, Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress Image
Gowan Dawson, Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress Image (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024) 392 pp. £30.00 Hb. ISBN 978-0-300-27062-4 Monkey to Man is Gowan Dawson’s study of the 1860-1979 emergence of the ‘March of Progress’ image: the well-worn notion of evolutionary development as an orderly left-to-right ascent. One finding:…
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Speitz, Michelle, The Romantic Sublime and Representations of Technology
Michelle Speitz, The Romantic Sublime and Representations of Technology (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2024) 216 pp. £80 Hb. ISBN: 9781835536704 In The Romantic Sublime and Representations of Technology, Michelle Speitz ‘offers the first full-length study of the sublime stories British Romantic writers told about technology’ (p. 1). This is a welcome and original study, casting…
