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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:
Neeraja Sankaran
Lars Chittka,
The Mind of a Bee
; Thomas Halliday,
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds
June 11, 2025
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Andrew Mangham
Reiss, Benjamin,
Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture
June 30, 2010
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Andrew Mangham
Sparks, Tabitha,
The Doctor in the Victorian Novel
December 11, 2009
in
Reviews
,
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
,
Reviews
Niall Sreenan
Strom, Kirsten,
The Animal Surreal: The Role of Darwin, Animals, and Evolution in Surrealism
August 27, 2018
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Domonique Davies
Matz, Jesse,
Modernist Time Ecology
April 24, 2023
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
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
,
Reviews
Meredith Conti
Chiari, Sophie and Mickaël Popelard (eds),
Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare
November 12, 2019
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
Reviews
Janette Leaf
Hearn, Lafcadio,
Insect Literature
January 6, 2024
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Janette Leaf
Rothfels, Nigel,
Elephant Trails: A History of Animals and Cultures
April 24, 2023
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Janette Leaf
Danta, Chris,
Animal Fables After Darwin: Literature, Speciesism, and Metaphor
August 20, 2019
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Janette Leaf
Boehrer, Bruce and Molly Hand and Brian Massumi (eds),
Animals and Animality
November 27, 2019
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Animesh Chatterjee
Bach, Susanne and Folkert Degenring (eds),
Dark Nights, Bright Lights: Night, Darkness, and Illumination in Literature
December 26, 2017
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Laura Ludtke
Pollatsek, Alexander and Rebecca Treiman (eds),
The Oxford Handbook of Reading
September 18, 2017
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Helen Goodman
Pardo, Michael S. and Dennis Patterson,
Minds, Brains, and Law: The Conceptual Foundations of Law and Neuroscience
June 27, 2017
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Barri Gold
Bailes, Melissa,
Regenerating Romanticism: Botany, Sensibility, and Originality in British Literature, 1750-1830
August 25, 2024
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Barri Gold
Ketabgian, Tamara,
The Lives of Machines
July 21, 2011
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Barri Gold
Clarke, Bruce and Manuela Rossini (eds),
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman
August 3, 2017
in
Reviews
Barri Gold
Clarke, Bruce and Manuela Rossini (eds),
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science
January 18, 2011
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Barri Gold
Tate, Gregory,
The Poet’s Mind
August 23, 2013
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
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