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Book reviewsThe British Society for Literature and Science reviews books on all aspects of literature and science on our website. Please follow these links for all current book reviews by period: General and Theory Early Modern to Eighteenth Century Romantic and Victorian Modern and Contemporary These are some of the most recent reviews: Bruce Clarke with Manuela Rossini (eds), The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science Jill Galvan, The Sympathetic Medium Laurie Garrison, Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels Barri J. Gold, ThermoPoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science Katherine Hodgkin (ed.), Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England: The Autobiographical Writings of Dionys Fitzherbert Jeanette Eileen Jones and Patrick B. Sharp (eds), Darwin in Atlantic Cultures Cannon Schmitt, Darwin and the Memory of the Human Sally Shuttleworth, The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine, 1840-1900 Srdjan Smajić, Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists Reviews are also listed by author and title, by date of publication and by reviewer. If you would like to submit a book to be reviewed, please send it to Dr John Holmes, BSLS Reviews Editor, Dept. of English and American Literature, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AA, U.K. If you would like to review books, please email…
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Modern and Contemporary

Current books on literature and science in the twentieth century and after include:

Jasanoff, Sheila and Sang-Hyun Kim (eds), Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power

Jul 6, 2017

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Matthew Paskins

in Modern and Contemporary, Reviews
Jenkins, Alice, Space and the ‘March of Mind’: Literature and the Physical Sciences in Britain, 1815-1850

Jan 5, 2011

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Bernard Lightman

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Modern and Contemporary, Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Jones, Esther L., Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction

Jul 25, 2016

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Caroline Mosser

in Modern and Contemporary, Reviews
Joyce, Lindsey and Víctor Navarro-Remesal (eds), Culture at Play: How Video Games Influence and Replicate Our World

Aug 27, 2021

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Adrian Osbourne

in Modern and Contemporary, Reviews
Jung, Susanne, Bouncing Back: Queer Resilience in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century English Literature and Culture

Oct 2, 2020

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Anna T.

in Modern and Contemporary, Reviews
Kaiser, David and W Patrick McCray (eds), Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation and American Counterculture

Jan 30, 2017

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Caroline King

in Modern and Contemporary, Reviews
Killeen, Kevin, Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England: Thomas Browne and the Thorny Place of Knowledge

Oct 2, 2010

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Mary Morrissey

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, General and Theory, Modern and Contemporary, Reviews, Romantic and Victorian
Leane, Elizabeth, Reading Popular Physics

Oct 6, 2011

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Jenni Halpin

in Modern and Contemporary, Reviews
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
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

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