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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:
Rowland Hughes
Tuthill, Maureen,
Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel: Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine
November 6, 2017
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Katherine Walker
Hutson, Lorna (ed),
The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700
March 4, 2018
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
Reviews
Ryan Ross
Lin, Lana,
Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer
June 18, 2018
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Emily Turner
Tankard, Alex,
Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Invalid Lives
October 24, 2018
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Katie Ann Tobin
Fay, Jennifer,
Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene
April 24, 2023
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Alex Tischer
Burnett, D. Graham and Justin E. H. Smith (eds),
Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses
March 18, 2024
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Sravya Darbhamulla
Sarkar, Debapriya,
Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science
October 22, 2024
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Alice Dodds
Endersby, Jim,
The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology’s Imaginary Futures 1900–1935
August 14, 2025
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Adelene Buckland
Higgitt, Rebekah,
Recreating Newton
February 18, 2008
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Kelley Swain
Gordon, Rae Beth,
Dances with Darwin, 1875-1910
July 29, 2009
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Peter Johnston
Blackwell, Stephen H.,
The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov’s Art and the Worlds of Science
July 26, 2010
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Richard Somerset
Garratt, Peter,
Victorian Empiricism
October 6, 2011
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Steven McLean
Page, Michael,
The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H. G. Wells
February 19, 2013
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Jillian Wingfield
Mousoutzanis, Aris,
Fin-de-Siècle Fictions, 1890s/1990s: Apocalypse, Technoscience, Empire
September 24, 2015
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Doreen Thierauf
Raines, Melissa Anne,
George Eliot’s Grammar of Being
March 30, 2016
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
J D Fleming
Martin, Craig,
Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History and Philosophy in Early Modern Science
September 16, 2016
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
Reviews
Sally Blackburn
Murray, Alex,
Landscapes of Decadence: Literature and Place at the Fin de Siècle
June 21, 2017
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Carl White
Cordle, Daniel,
Late Cold War Literature and Culture: The Nuclear 1980s
August 28, 2017
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Marina Fleck
Crowley, Caroline and Denis Linehan (eds),
Spacing Ireland: Place, Society and Culture in a Post-Boom Era
December 28, 2017
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Annika Gonnerman
Marks, Peter,
Imagining Surveillance: Eutopian and Dystopian Literature and Film
April 27, 2018
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
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