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The 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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Welcome to the members’ homepage on the BSLS site. We are working on adding content here. One project in development is a section for teaching resources in literature and science being prepared by Janine Rogers. We are pleased to announce the first of our interview series with prominent scholars in the field of literature and science. Our first interviewee is Professor George Levine. Future interviews are planned with Dame Gillian Beer and Harriet Ritvo. For now have a look at current members research interests and take advantage of a 20% discount provided by Oxford University Press to society members.
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Books reviewed, by reviewer
Here is a full list of books reviewed on the BSLS website, organized by reviewer:
Aureo Lustosa Guerios Neto
Axelrod-Sokolov, Mark,
Madness in Fiction: Literary Essays from Poe to Fowles
March 8, 2019
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Aureo Lustosa Guerios Neto
Lamb, Jonathan,
Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery
May 23, 2018
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Verity Burke
Secord, James,
Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age
December 28, 2015
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Verity Burke
Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence,
Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic
January 4, 2010
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Verity Burke
Dawson, Gowan,
Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
November 4, 2016
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Abby Boucher
Ingram, Allan and Leigh Wetherall Dickson (eds),
Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Fashioning the Unfashionable
July 17, 2017
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Jessica Thomas
Anger, Suzy and Thomas Vranken (eds),
Victorian Automata: Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century
June 7, 2024
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Jessica Thomas
Small, Douglas R. J.,
Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930
March 15, 2024
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
Alessio Mattana
Coppola, Al,
The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
April 27, 2018
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Alessio Mattana
Wickman, Matthew,
Literature After Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment
August 20, 2018
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Benedetta Burgio
Powell, Rosalind,
Perception and Analogy: Poetry, Science, and Religion in the Eighteenth Century
June 25, 2024
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Laura Seymour
Flaherty, Jennifer and Deborah Uman (eds),
Liberating Shakespeare: Adaptation and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences
August 29, 2023
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Caroline Summerfield
Shaw, Debra Benita,
Women, Science and Fiction Revisited
September 21, 2023
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
Alkisti Kallinikou
Auyoung, Elaine,
When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind
May 17, 2024
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
Andrew Mangham
Reiss, Benjamin,
Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture
June 30, 2010
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Andrew Mangham
Sparks, Tabitha,
The Doctor in the Victorian Novel
December 11, 2009
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Chisomo Kalinga
Slater, John and Maríaluz López-Terrada and José Pardo-Tomás (eds),
Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire
August 2, 2016
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Niall Sreenan
Strom, Kirsten,
The Animal Surreal: The Role of Darwin, Animals, and Evolution in Surrealism
August 27, 2018
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Domonique Davies
Matz, Jesse,
Modernist Time Ecology
April 24, 2023
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Dion Dobrzynski
Brown, Andy,
The Tree Climbing Cure: Finding Wellbeing in Trees in European and North American Literature and Art
July 4, 2023
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
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