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:

Shetty, Sandhya, Imperial Pharmakon: Writing and Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century

May 12, 2026

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Arya Sarkar

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Shirilan, Stephanie, Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy

May 4, 2017

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Danny Gabelman

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Reviews
Shuttleworth, Sally, The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine, 1840-1900

Jan 11, 2011

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Jon Adams

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, General and Theory, Modern and Contemporary, Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Sidi, Leah, Sarah Kane’s Theatre of Psychic Life

Oct 30, 2023

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Wansah AlShammari

in Modern and Contemporary, Reviews
Simanowski, Roberto, Data Love: The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies

Dec 27, 2017

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Matthew Paskins

in General and Theory, Reviews
Skuse, Alana, Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England: Altered Bodies and Contexts of Identity

Apr 22, 2024

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Michael Brown

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Reviews
Skuse, Alanna, Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England: Ravenous Natures

Aug 16, 2017

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Lina Minou

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Reviews
Skuse, Alanna, Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature

Jan 9, 2026

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Chloe Wilcox

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Reviews
Slater, John and Maríaluz López-Terrada and José Pardo-Tomás (eds), Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire

Aug 2, 2016

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Chisomo Kalinga

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Reviews
Sleigh, Charlotte, Literature and Science

Aug 8, 2011

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Vike Plock

in General and Theory, Reviews
Sleigh, Charlotte, Six Legs Better

Jan 21, 2009

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Janine Rogers

in Modern and Contemporary, Reviews
Sloane, Andrew, Vulnerability and Care: Christian Reflections on the Philosophy of Medicine

Jul 7, 2017

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Ben Masters-Stevens

in General and Theory, Reviews
Smajić, Srdjan, Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists, and Jill Galvan, The Sympathetic Medium

Mar 1, 2011

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Martin Willis

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Small, Douglas R. J., Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930

Mar 15, 2024

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Jessica Thomas

in General and Theory, Reviews
Smith, Andrew and William Hughes (eds), Ecogothic

Mar 8, 2019

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Layla Hendow

in General and Theory, Reviews
Smith, Matthew Wilson, The Nervous Stage: Nineteenth-century Neuroscience and the Birth of Modern Theatre

Oct 12, 2018

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Marta Ferrer

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Smith, Simon and Jacqueline Watson and Amy Kenny (eds), The Senses in Early Modern England 1558-1660

May 9, 2018

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Ágnes Bató

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Reviews
Smyth, Karen, Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve’s Verse

Feb 5, 2013

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Janine Rogers

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Reviews
Söderqvist, Thomas (ed.), The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography

Jan 22, 2010

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David Amigoni

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Solnick, Sam, Poetry and the Anthropocene: Ecology, Biology and Technology in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry

Apr 24, 2017

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Adrian Tait

in Modern and Contemporary, Reviews
Solomon, Tom, Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Medicine

Sep 12, 2017

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Jen Baker

in Modern and Contemporary, Reviews
Solomonescu, Yasmin, John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination

Apr 24, 2016

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Jessica Roberts

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Sözalan, Özden and Inci Bilgin Tekin (eds), Environment and Fiction: Critical Readings

Mar 2, 2021

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Alice Higgs

in General and Theory, Reviews
Spanagel, David, DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton: Geology and Power in Early New York

Oct 7, 2016

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Ryan Ross

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Sparks, Tabitha, The Doctor in the Victorian Novel

Dec 11, 2009

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Andrew Mangham

in Reviews, Romantic and Victorian

Shetty, Sandhya, Imperial Pharmakon: Writing and Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century

Shirilan, Stephanie, Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy

Shuttleworth, Sally, The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine, 1840-1900

Sidi, Leah, Sarah Kane’s Theatre of Psychic Life

Simanowski, Roberto, Data Love: The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies

Skuse, Alana, Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England: Altered Bodies and Contexts of Identity

Skuse, Alanna, Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England: Ravenous Natures

Skuse, Alanna, Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature

Slater, John and Maríaluz López-Terrada and José Pardo-Tomás (eds), Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire

Sleigh, Charlotte, Literature and Science

Sleigh, Charlotte, Six Legs Better

Sloane, Andrew, Vulnerability and Care: Christian Reflections on the Philosophy of Medicine

Smajić, Srdjan, Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists, and Jill Galvan, The Sympathetic Medium

Small, Douglas R. J., Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930

Smith, Andrew and William Hughes (eds), Ecogothic

Smith, Matthew Wilson, The Nervous Stage: Nineteenth-century Neuroscience and the Birth of Modern Theatre

Smith, Simon and Jacqueline Watson and Amy Kenny (eds), The Senses in Early Modern England 1558-1660

Smyth, Karen, Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve’s Verse

Söderqvist, Thomas (ed.), The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography

Solnick, Sam, Poetry and the Anthropocene: Ecology, Biology and Technology in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry

Solomon, Tom, Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Medicine

Solomonescu, Yasmin, John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination

Sözalan, Özden and Inci Bilgin Tekin (eds), Environment and Fiction: Critical Readings

Spanagel, David, DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton: Geology and Power in Early New York

Sparks, Tabitha, The Doctor in the Victorian Novel