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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:
Katherine Walker
Preston, Claire,
The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
July 27, 2016
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Caroline King
Kaiser, David and W Patrick McCray (eds),
Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation and American Counterculture
January 30, 2017
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Jordan Kistler
Flandreau, Marc,
Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: a financial history of Victorian Britain
June 5, 2017
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Oliver Neto
Morrisson, Mark S,
Modernism, Science, and Technology
July 27, 2017
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Harriet Newnes
Lundblad, Michael (ed),
Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human
November 1, 2017
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
Natalie Seaton-Lucas
Jr, Robert T Tally (ed),
The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space
March 3, 2018
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Denise Saul
Tilley, Heather,
Blindness and Writing: From Wordsworth to Gissing
June 12, 2018
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Liz Edwards
Fairclough, Mary,
Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840: ‘Electrick Communication Every Where’
October 24, 2018
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Alberto Brodesco
Trumbore, Dave and Donna J. Nelson,
The Science of Breaking Bad
July 31, 2019
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
James Eric Siburt
Dillion, Sarah and Claire Craig,
Storylistening: Narrative Evidence and Public Reasoning
April 24, 2023
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Alex Tischer
Lynall, Gregory,
Imagining Solar Energy: The Power of the Sun in Literature, Science and Culture
March 18, 2024
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
bsls, Frank A. J. L. James
Fyfe, Aileen and Kidd, Colin (eds),
Beyond the Enlightenment: Scottish Intellectual Life, 1790-1914
October 22, 2024
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Nayanika Shome
Carey, Brycchan,
The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807
August 8, 2025
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Katy Price
Crawford, Robert (ed),
Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science
December 7, 2007
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Nicolas Correard
King, Christa Knellwolf,
Faustus and the Promises of the New Science
July 29, 2009
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Jason David Hall
Holmes, John,
Darwin’s Bards
July 21, 2010
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Richard Moss
Bourcier, Simon de,
Pynchon and Relativity: Narrative Time in Thomas Pynchon’s Later Novels
September 18, 2015
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Karl Bell
Kontou, Tatiana and Sarah Willburn (eds),
The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult
March 29, 2016
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Kate Gath
Charalampous, Charis,
Rethinking the Mind-Body Relationship in Early Modern Literature, Philosophy and Medicine
September 15, 2016
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Doreen Thierauf
Lupton, Deborah,
The Quantified Self
March 22, 2017
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
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