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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:
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
Alice Jenkins
Gold, Barri J.,
ThermoPoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science
April 11, 2011
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Niall Hodgson
Miert, Dirk van (ed),
Communicating Observations in Early Modern Letters (1500-1675): Epistolography and Epistemology in the Age of the Scientific Revolution
May 26, 2015
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
Reviews
Xiao Yizhi
Alexander, Sarah C,
Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable
January 20, 2016
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Caroline Mosser
Jones, Esther L.,
Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction
July 25, 2016
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Adrian Tait
Klancher, Jon,
Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age
January 17, 2017
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Carl White
Houser, Heather,
Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect
May 23, 2017
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Catriona Livingstone
Richardson, Angelique (ed),
After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind
July 21, 2017
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Angela Byrne
Barnard, Teresa (ed),
British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century
October 30, 2017
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
General and Theory
,
Reviews
John C. Murray
Merchant, Peter and Catherine Waters (eds),
Dickens and the Imagined Child
February 27, 2018
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Matthew Paskins
Brown, Nathan,
The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics
May 25, 2018
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
John C. Murray
Tondre, Michael,
The Physics of Possibility: Victorian Fiction, Science, and Gender
October 23, 2018
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Michael John Goodman
Mayor, Adrienne,
Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
July 29, 2019
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
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