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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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Books reviewed, by reviewer
Here is a full list of books reviewed on the BSLS website, organized by reviewer:
Lindsey Stewart
Keen, Suzanne,
Thomas Hardy’s Brains: Psychology, Neurology, and Hardy’s Imagination
April 24, 2016
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Stuart Mathieson
Blancke, Stefaan and Hans Henrik Hjermitslev and Peter C. Kjærgaard (eds),
foreword by Ronald L. Numbers, Creationism In Europe
October 15, 2016
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Theodora Domotor
Nekrašas, Evaldas,
The Positive Mind: Its Development and Impact on Modernity and Postmodernity
April 24, 2017
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Louise Benson James
Ford, Jane and Kim Edwards Keates and Patricia Pulham (eds),
Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Libidinal Lives
June 28, 2017
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Richard Fallon
White, Laura,
The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World
September 4, 2017
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Theodora Domotor
Luck, Chad,
The Body of Property: Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession
January 27, 2018
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Mariam Zarif
Holledge, Julie and Jonathan Bollenand Frode Helland and Joanne Tompkins,
A Global Doll’s House: Ibsen and Distant Visions
August 11, 2018
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Subha Robert William
Thornton, Amara,
Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People
March 8, 2019
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Kameron Sanzo
Murphy, Kieran M.,
Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination
July 14, 2020
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Laurence Talaraich
Forsberg, Laura,
Worlds Beyond: Miniatures and Victorian Fiction
September 7, 2023
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Ellen Stockstill
Boucher, Abigail,
Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction
June 6, 2024
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Sandro Eich
Hamann-Rose, Paul,
Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction
May 13, 2025
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Rhonda Mayne
Armstrong, Patrick,
Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction: Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett
March 7, 2026
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Patrick Parrinder
Roberts, Adam,
The History of Science Fiction
January 5, 2009
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
Carolyn D. Williams
Davidson, Jenny,
Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century
January 4, 2010
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Barbara Kennedy
Hodgkin, Katherine (ed),
Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England: The Autobiographical Writings of Dionys Fitzherbert
March 16, 2011
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Kelley Swain
Stiles, Anne,
Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century
April 12, 2012
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Kaja Franck
Höglund, Johan,
The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence
January 16, 2016
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Ann Kennedy Smith
Purton, Valerie (ed),
Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science
July 4, 2016
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Courtney Salvey
Binfield, Kevin (ed),
Writings of the Luddites
May 9, 2017
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
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