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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:
Nicolas Correard
Turner, Henry S.,
Shakespeare’s Double Helix
August 18, 2008
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
Reviews
Stella Pratt-Smith
Lightman, Bernard,
Victorian Popularizers of Science
September 14, 2009
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Jon Adams
Hagen, Margareth and Randi Koppen and Margery Vibe Skagen (eds),
The Art of Discovery: Encounters in Literature and Science
January 5, 2011
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
General and Theory
,
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
David Stack
Dawson, Gowan,
Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability
December 15, 2011
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Mark Hutchings
Ben-Zaken, Avner,
Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean,1560-1660
July 19, 2013
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
Reviews
Deborah Lilley
Ours, Kathryn St.,
Where Science and Literature Meet: The Earthy Writing of Jean-Loup Trassard
November 24, 2015
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Katherine Walker
Yale, Elizabeth,
Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain
May 5, 2016
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
Reviews
Neil Pemberton
Adam, Alison,
A History of Forensic Science
October 26, 2016
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Anna Brunton
Keen, Paul,
Literature, Commerce, and the Spectacle of Modernity, 1750-1800
April 24, 2017
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
Reviews
Matthew Paskins
Jasanoff, Sheila and Sang-Hyun Kim (eds),
Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power
July 6, 2017
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Treena Balds
Sutil, Nicolás Salazar and Sita Popat (eds),
Digital Movement: Essays in Motion Technology and Performance
September 12, 2017
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Megan Kenny
Goulet, Andrea,
Legacies of the Rue Morgue
January 27, 2018
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Jessica C Hume
Whitehead, James,
Madness and the Romantic Poet: A Critical History
May 10, 2018
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Romén Reyes-Peschl
Hayles, N. Katherine,
Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious
August 24, 2018
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Abigail Oyston
Olszynko-Gryn, Jesse and Patrick Ellis (eds),
The British Journal for the History of Science, Special Issue: Reproduction on Film
April 15, 2019
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Laura R. Kremmel
Mann, Annika,
Reading Contagion: The Hazards of Reading in the Age of Print
July 15, 2020
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Sharon Ruston
Waller-Peterson, Belinda,
Womb Work: Healing Narratives as Reparative Praxis in Black Women’s Literature
May 15, 2025
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Abraham Dayalu
Price, Elfed Huw,
William Lawrence and the Organ of Mind: The Theology, Medicine and Politics of the Brain
March 18, 2026
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
David Allan Feller
Armstrong, Philip,
What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity
January 21, 2009
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Lisa Wynne Smith
Höfer, Bernadette,
Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth-Century French Literature
January 12, 2010
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
Reviews
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