Reviews

• Steven Meyer (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science
• Andrew Gaedtke, Modernism and the Machinery of Madness: Psychosis, Technology, and Narrative Worlds
• Matthew Wilson Smith, The Nervous Stage: Nineteenth-century Neuroscience and the Birth of Modern Theater
• Jonathan Foltz, The Novel after Film: Modernism and the Decline of Autonomy
• Michael Tondre, The Physics of Possibility: Victorian Fiction, Science, and Gender
• Mary Fairclough, Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840: 'Electrick Communication Every Where'
• Alex Tankard, Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature: Invalid Lives
• Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal
• Helena Ifill, Creating Character: Theories of Nature and Nurture in Victorian Sensation Fiction
• Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett (eds), Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age
• Ron Broglio, Beasts of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism
• John Beck and Ryan Bishop (eds), Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics
• Ian Hesketh, Victorian Jesus: J.R. Seeley, Religion, and the Cultural Significance of Anonymity

A list of books for which we are currently seeking reviewers can be found here.

Please email Franziska Kohlt on <franziska.kohlt@bnc.ox.ac.uk> if you would like to propose a book for review  - anything published from 2017 onwards will be considered.

• Peter J. Bowler, A History of the Future: Prophets of Progress from H. G. Wells to Isaac Asimov
• Debra Hawhee, Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation
• D. Harlan Wilson, J.G. Ballard
• Ursula K. Heise, Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species
• Nathaniel Isaacson, Celestial Empire: the Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction
• Julia S. Carlson, Romantic Marks and Measures: Wordsworth’s Poetry in Fields of Print

• Naomi Rokotnitz, Trusting Performance: A Cognitive Approach to Embodiment in Drama
• Heather Tilley, Blindness and Writing: From Wordsworth to Gissing
• Lana Lin, Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer
• Clare Brant, Balloon Madness: Flights of Imagination in Britain, 1783-1786
• Bronwen Calvert, Being Bionic: The World of TV Cyborgs
• Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the Jennifer Aniston Neuron
• Paula McDowell, The Invention of the Oral: Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century Britain
• Roslynn D. Haynes, From Madman to Crime Fighter: The Scientist in Western Culture

• Simon Smith, Jacqueline Watson and Amy Kenny (eds), The Senses in Early Modern England 1558-1660
• Claire Hanson, Gerri Kimber and Todd Martin (eds), Katherine Mansfield and Psychology
• James Whitehead, Madness and the Romantic Poet: A Critical History
• Chris Pak, Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction
• Jason D. Hall, Nineteenth-Century Verse and Technology: Machines of Meter
• Colin Jones, The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Paris
• Fred Botting and Catherine Spooner (eds), Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects: Imaging Gothic from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
• Tom Furniss, Discovering the Footsteps of Time: Geological Travel Writing about Scotland, 1700-1820
• Susan L Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger, Jr., Righting America at the Creation Museum
• Jonathan Lamb, Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery
• Richard Halpern, Eclipse of Action: Tragedy and Political Economy
• Benjamin Morgan, The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science
• Alison Bashford and Joyce E. Chaplin, The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Rereading the Principle of Population
• Nathan Brown, The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics

• Fay Bound Alberti, This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture
• Matthew Griffiths, The New Poetics of Climate Change: Modernist Aesthetics for a Warming World
• Michael R. Finn, Figures from the Pre-Freudian Unconscious from Flaubert to Proust
• Rebecca P. Scales, Radio and the Politics of Sound in Interwar France, 1921-1939
• Anna West, Thomas Hardy and Animals
• Peter Marks, Imagining Surveillance: Eutopian and Dystopian Literature and Film
• Catherine Maxwell, Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture
• Jeff Rosen, Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘Fancy Subjects’: Photographic Allegories of Victorian Identity and Empire
• Josie Billington, Is Literature Healthy?
• Al Coppola, The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

• Robert T Tally Jr (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space
• Lorna Hutson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700
• Amanda Jo Goldstein, Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life
• Molly Farrell, Counting Bodies: Population in Colonial American Writing
• Alison A Chapman, The Legal Epic: Paradise Lost and the Early Modern Law
• Adriana Craciun, Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration
• Marlene Goldman, Forgotten: Narratives of Age-Related Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease in Canada
  A list of books for which we are currently seeking reviewers can be found here.
  Please email Gavin Budge on <G.Budge@herts.ac.uk> if you would like to propose a book for review  - anything published from 2016 onwards will be considered.

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 Mind Within the Brain: How We Make Decisions and how those Decisions Go Wrong
• Douglas Robinson, Translationality: Essays in the Translational-Medical Humanities
• Andrea Goulet, Legacies of the Rue Morgue
• Bruce Clarke (ed.), Earth, Life, and System: Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet
• Ursula K Heise, Jon Christensen and Michelle Niemann (eds), The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities
• Jessica Winston, Lawyers at Play: Literature, Law, and Politics at the Early Modern Inns of Court, 1558-1581
• Mary K DeShazer, Mammographies: The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives

A list of books for which we are currently seeking reviewers can be found here.

Please email Gavin Budge on <G.Budge@herts.ac.uk> if you would like to propose a book for review  - anything published from 2016 onwards will be considered.

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 details about yourself and your interests, and a postal address.

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 T Troscianko (eds), Cognitive Literary Science: Dialogues between Literature and Cognition

A list of books for which we are currently seeking reviewers can be found here.

Please email Gavin Budge on <G.Budge@herts.ac.uk> if you would like to propose a book for review  - anything published from 2016 onwards will be considered.