Books reviewed, by author – The British Society for Literature and Science

Here is a full list of books reviewed on the BSLS website, organized alphabetically by author:

Langbein, Julia, Fuchs, Anne and Cosgrove, Mary (eds) Framing Aging: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Humanities and Social Sciences Research

Jan 13, 2025

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Melanie Byron

in General and Theory, Reviews
Langum, Virginia, Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture

Oct 22, 2019

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Jack Ford

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Reviews
Lansley, Charles Morris, Charles Darwin’s Debt to the Romantics: How Alexander von Humboldt, Goethe and Wordsworth Helped Shape Darwin’s View of Nature

Jul 6, 2021

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Trenton B. Olsen

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Laroche, Rebecca and Jennifer Munroe, Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory

Mar 8, 2019

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Elizabeth Askey

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Reviews
Lars Chittka, The Mind of a Bee; Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds

Jun 11, 2025

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Neeraja Sankaran

in General and Theory, Reviews
Lau, Beth (ed), Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind

Jul 29, 2019

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Francesca Arnavas

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Lawlor, Clark, Consumption and Literature

May 1, 2008

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David E. Shuttleton

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Lawlor, Clark, From Melancholia to Prozac: A History of Depression

Aug 6, 2012

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Angela Woods

in General and Theory, Reviews
Leane, Elizabeth, Reading Popular Physics

Oct 6, 2011

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Jenni Halpin

in Modern and Contemporary, Reviews
Lecourt, Sebastian, Cultivating Belief: Victorian Anthropology, Liberal Aesthetics, & the Secular Imagination

Oct 22, 2019

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Sally Blackburn

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Lehmann, Olga V. and Synnes, Oddgeir (eds), A Poetic Language of Ageing

Oct 8, 2024

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Lavanya Arora

in General and Theory, Reviews
Levine, George, Darwin Loves You

Apr 19, 2012

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John Holmes

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Levine, George, Darwin the Writer

Jul 31, 2012

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Katherine Ford

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Levine, George, Realism, Ethics and Secularism

Apr 10, 2009

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John Holmes

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Lewens, Tim, Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges

May 18, 2016

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Alison Adam

in General and Theory, Reviews
Lightman, Bernard and Aileen Fyfe (eds), Science in the Marketplace

Sep 10, 2009

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Adelene Buckland

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Lightman, Bernard and Bennett Zon (eds), Evolution and Victorian Culture

Sep 8, 2015

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Will Tattersdill

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Lightman, Bernard, Victorian Popularizers of Science

Sep 14, 2009

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Stella Pratt-Smith

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Lin, Lana, Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer

Jun 18, 2018

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Ryan Ross

in Modern and Contemporary, Reviews
Liu, Lydia H., The Freudian Robot

Aug 8, 2011

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Alistair Brown

in General and Theory, Reviews
Livingstone, David N., Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution

May 22, 2016

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Courtney Salvey

in Modern and Contemporary, Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Livingstone, David N., The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea

Oct 8, 2024

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Thabata Tosta

in General and Theory, Reviews
Luck, Chad, The Body of Property: Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession

Jan 27, 2018

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Theodora Domotor

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Luczak, Ewa Barbara, Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination

Aug 21, 2016

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Caroline Mosser

in Modern and Contemporary, Reviews
Lundblad, Michael (ed), Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human

Nov 1, 2017

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Harriet Newnes

in General and Theory, Reviews

Langbein, Julia, Fuchs, Anne and Cosgrove, Mary (eds) Framing Aging: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Humanities and Social Sciences Research

Langum, Virginia, Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture

Lansley, Charles Morris, Charles Darwin’s Debt to the Romantics: How Alexander von Humboldt, Goethe and Wordsworth Helped Shape Darwin’s View of Nature

Laroche, Rebecca and Jennifer Munroe, Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory

Lars Chittka, The Mind of a Bee; Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds

Lau, Beth (ed), Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind

Lawlor, Clark, Consumption and Literature

Lawlor, Clark, From Melancholia to Prozac: A History of Depression

Leane, Elizabeth, Reading Popular Physics

Lecourt, Sebastian, Cultivating Belief: Victorian Anthropology, Liberal Aesthetics, & the Secular Imagination

Lehmann, Olga V. and Synnes, Oddgeir (eds), A Poetic Language of Ageing

Levine, George, Darwin Loves You

Levine, George, Darwin the Writer

Levine, George, Realism, Ethics and Secularism

Lewens, Tim, Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges

Lightman, Bernard and Aileen Fyfe (eds), Science in the Marketplace

Lightman, Bernard and Bennett Zon (eds), Evolution and Victorian Culture

Lightman, Bernard, Victorian Popularizers of Science

Lin, Lana, Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer

Liu, Lydia H., The Freudian Robot

Livingstone, David N., Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution

Livingstone, David N., The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea

Luck, Chad, The Body of Property: Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession

Luczak, Ewa Barbara, Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination

Lundblad, Michael (ed), Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human