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:

Paul, Harry W., Henri de Rothschild, 1872-1947: Medicine and Theater

Aug 16, 2011

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Kirsten Shepherd-Barr

in Modern and Contemporary, Reviews
Peakman, Julie, Amatory Pleasures: Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture

Sep 16, 2017

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Máire MacNeill

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Reviews
Pender, Stephen and Nancy S. Struever (eds), Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe

Aug 19, 2015

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Curtis Runstedler

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Reviews
Pérez Edelman, Diana, Embryology and the Rise of The Gothic Novel

Jun 6, 2024

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Arwa F. Al-Mubaddel

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Perloff, Marjorie and Craig Dworkin (eds), The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound

Feb 16, 2011

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Conor Carville

in Modern and Contemporary, Reviews
Pernau, Margrit and Helge Jordhem et al., Civilizing Emotions. Concepts in Nineteenth-Century Asia and Europe

Aug 11, 2018

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Ricardo A Ayala

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Peterfreund, Stuart, Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin: The Way of the Argument from Design

Dec 28, 2015

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Courtney Salvey

in General and Theory, Reviews
Peterson, Kaara L., Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare’s England

Nov 26, 2010

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Victoria Sparey

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Reviews
Phegley, Jennifer et. al. (eds), Transatlantic Sensations

Apr 25, 2016

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Theodora Domotor

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Phillips, Natalie M, Distraction: Problems of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Apr 24, 2017

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Lina Minou

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Reviews
Pietrzak-Franger, Monika, Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture: Medicine, Knowledge, and the Spectacle of Invisibility

Jan 27, 2018

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Joe Holloway

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Pietsch, B. M., Dispensational Modernism

Mar 30, 2016

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Theodora Domotor

in Modern and Contemporary, Reviews
Plock, Vike, Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity

Mar 1, 2010

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Katy Mullin

in Modern and Contemporary, Reviews
Pollatsek, Alexander and Rebecca Treiman (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Reading

Sep 18, 2017

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Laura Ludtke

in General and Theory, Reviews
Potter, Jonathan, Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing, Thinking, Writing

Oct 22, 2019

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Patrick Armstrong

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Pourciau, Sarah M, The Writing of Spirit: Soul, System, and The Roots of Language Science

Feb 26, 2018

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Denise Saul

in General and Theory, Reviews
Powell, Rosalind, Perception and Analogy: Poetry, Science, and Religion in the Eighteenth Century

Jun 25, 2024

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Benedetta Burgio

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Reviews
Pratt-Smith, Stella, Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science

Mar 8, 2019

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John C. Murray

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Preston, Claire, The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

Jul 27, 2016

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Katherine Walker

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Reviews
Price, Elfed Huw, William Lawrence and the Organ of Mind: The Theology, Medicine and Politics of the Brain

Mar 18, 2026

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Abraham Dayalu

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Priestman, Martin, The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times

Sep 14, 2015

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John Holmes

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Reviews
Prkachin, Yvan, Wired Together: The Montreal Neurological Institute and the Origins of Neuroscience

Sep 3, 2026

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Arunima A. Vasudevan

in General and Theory, Reviews
Purton, Valerie (ed), Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science

Jul 4, 2016

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Ann Kennedy Smith

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Quiroga, Rodrigo Quian, Borges and Memory

Apr 22, 2013

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Romén Reyes-Peschl

in Modern and Contemporary, Reviews
Quiroga, Rodrigo Quian, The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the Jennifer Aniston Neuron

Jun 20, 2018

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Christina Wilkins

in General and Theory, Reviews

Paul, Harry W., Henri de Rothschild, 1872-1947: Medicine and Theater

Peakman, Julie, Amatory Pleasures: Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture

Pender, Stephen and Nancy S. Struever (eds), Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe

Pérez Edelman, Diana, Embryology and the Rise of The Gothic Novel

Perloff, Marjorie and Craig Dworkin (eds), The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound

Pernau, Margrit and Helge Jordhem et al., Civilizing Emotions. Concepts in Nineteenth-Century Asia and Europe

Peterfreund, Stuart, Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin: The Way of the Argument from Design

Peterson, Kaara L., Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare’s England

Phegley, Jennifer et. al. (eds), Transatlantic Sensations

Phillips, Natalie M, Distraction: Problems of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Pietrzak-Franger, Monika, Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture: Medicine, Knowledge, and the Spectacle of Invisibility

Pietsch, B. M., Dispensational Modernism

Plock, Vike, Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity

Pollatsek, Alexander and Rebecca Treiman (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Reading

Potter, Jonathan, Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing, Thinking, Writing

Pourciau, Sarah M, The Writing of Spirit: Soul, System, and The Roots of Language Science

Powell, Rosalind, Perception and Analogy: Poetry, Science, and Religion in the Eighteenth Century

Pratt-Smith, Stella, Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science

Preston, Claire, The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

Price, Elfed Huw, William Lawrence and the Organ of Mind: The Theology, Medicine and Politics of the Brain

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

Prkachin, Yvan, Wired Together: The Montreal Neurological Institute and the Origins of Neuroscience

Purton, Valerie (ed), Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science

Quiroga, Rodrigo Quian, Borges and Memory

Quiroga, Rodrigo Quian, The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the Jennifer Aniston Neuron