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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:
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Call for Reviewers
May 30, 2025
in
Reviews
Colleen Marie Pauza
Gooday, Graeme,
Domesticating Electricity
February 9, 2010
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Kate Gazzard
Kennedy, Meegan,
Revising the Clinic
June 13, 2011
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Vanessa Schmitt
Duffy, Larry,
Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge
February 7, 2016
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Maggie Clark
Frederickson, Kathleen,
The Ploy of Instinct: Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance (New York: Fordham University Press 2014)
February 10, 2017
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Charlotte Fiehn
Bailey, Suzanne,
Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry
June 7, 2017
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Mathieu Donner
Crawford, Paul and Brian Brown and Charley Baker and Victoria Tischler and Brian Abrams,
Health Humanities
July 30, 2017
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Charlotte Fiehn
Budra, Paul and Clifford Werier (eds),
Shakespeare and Consciousness
November 17, 2017
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Catherine J W Lee
Goldstein, Amanda Jo,
Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life
March 4, 2018
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Jonathan Potter
Brant, Clare,
Balloon Madness: Flights of Imagination in Britain, 1783-1786
June 19, 2018
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
Mulvey-Roberts, Marie,
Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal
October 24, 2018
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Ashleigh Blackwood
Buckley, Jenifer,
Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature: The Maternal Imagination
August 27, 2019
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Anna Dijkstra
Fletcher, Angus,
Storythinking: The New Science of Narrative Intelligence
March 18, 2024
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
Lavanya Arora
Durham, Rebecca A.,
Be Still Mere Molecule
August 20, 2025
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
Christine Ferguson
Amigoni, David,
Colonies, Cults and Evolution
March 26, 2008
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Neil Cocks
Baggerman, Arianne and Rudolf Dekker,
Child of the Enlightenment
August 17, 2009
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Lucy Bending
Bauer, Heike,
English Literary Sexology
August 16, 2010
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Jennifer Munroe
Wallwork, Jo and Paul Salzman (eds),
Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas
October 25, 2011
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Nick Battey
Tinkler-Villani, Valeria and C.C. Barfoot (eds),
Restoring the Mystery of the Rainbow: Literature’s Refraction of Science
February 28, 2013
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
Kimberly Cox
Capuano, Peter J.,
Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body
October 20, 2015
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
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