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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:
Sarah Hagaman
Choksey, Lara,
Narrative in the Age of the Genome: Genetic Worlds
January 24, 2024
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Ashitha B. Arun
Hall, Kersten T.,
Insulin – The Crooked Timber: A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold
September 1, 2024
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Laurie Garrison
Carroll, Victoria,
Science and Eccentricity
April 8, 2009
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Thomas Woodman
Neville, Graham,
Coleridge and Liberal Religious Thought: Romanticism, Science and Theological Tradition
April 26, 2010
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Alistair Brown
Liu, Lydia H.,
The Freudian Robot
August 8, 2011
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Michelle Faubert
Ruston, Sharon,
Shelley and Vitality
January 11, 2013
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
Reviews
Katherine Walker
Knight, Leah,
Reading Green in Early Modern England
September 7, 2015
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
Reviews
Travis Lau
Style, Daniel Brown. The Poetry of Victorian Scientists:,
Science and Nonsense
March 7, 2016
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Tielman de Villiers
Baxter, Jeannette and Valerie Henitiuk and Ben Hutchinson (eds),
A Literature of Restitution. Critical Essays on W G Sebald
August 23, 2016
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
David Lowther
Menely, Tobias,
The Animal Claim: Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice
February 27, 2017
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Moritz Ingwerson
Kline, Ronald R,
The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age
June 13, 2017
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Alexander Luz
Danta, Chris and Helen Groth (eds),
Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and Science of the Mind
December 24, 2017
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Joe Holloway
Alberti, Fay Bound,
This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture
April 3, 2018
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Adam Teall
Bowler, Peter J.,
A History of the Future: Prophets of Progress from H. G. Wells to Isaac Asimov
July 2, 2018
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Andrew Raven
Gamer, Michael,
Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry
January 8, 2019
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Diana Pérez Edelman
Wainwright, Michael,
Literature, Parasitism, and Science: The Untold Worms of Stoker, Stevenson, and Doyle
June 20, 2023
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Sharon Ruston
Germaine, Chloe,
The Dark Matter of Children’s ‘Fantastika’ Literature: Speculative Entanglements
April 17, 2024
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Şima İmşir
Evens, Aden,
The Digital and Its Discontents
February 24, 2025
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Mahroof Mohammad
Joseph-Lester, Jasper, Kahane, Ahuvia, King, Simon and Leslie, Esther (eds),
Walking in Cities: Navigating Post-Pandemic Urban Environments
December 17, 2025
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Gregory Lynall
Sawday, Jonathan,
Engines of the Imagination
August 18, 2008
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
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