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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:
Patrick Armstrong
Hovanec, Caroline,
Animal Subjects: Literature, Zoology, and British Modernism
January 31, 2020
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Patrick Armstrong
Citton, Yves,
The Ecology of Attention
October 22, 2019
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Patrick Armstrong
Potter, Jonathan,
Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing, Thinking, Writing
October 22, 2019
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
John Holmes
Boyd, Brian,
On the Origin of Stories
June 30, 2010
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
John Holmes
Clarke, Bruce (ed),
Earth, Life, and System: Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet
January 27, 2018
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
John Holmes
Priestman, Martin,
The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times
September 14, 2015
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
Reviews
John Holmes
Heise, Ursula K.,
Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species
July 26, 2018
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
John Holmes
Heise, Ursula K and Jon Christensen and Michelle Niemann (eds),
The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities
January 27, 2018
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
John Holmes
Boyd, Brian,
Why Lyrics Last
September 27, 2012
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
General and Theory
,
Reviews
John Holmes
Ruddick, Nicholas,
The Fire in the Stone
August 19, 2009
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
John Holmes
Griffiths, Devin,
The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature between the Darwins
April 11, 2017
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
John Holmes
Christensen, Joel P.,
Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things
May 2, 2025
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
John Holmes
Dawson, Gowan and Bernard Lightman (eds),
Victorian Science and Literature (8 vols)
October 11, 2013
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
General and Theory
,
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
John Holmes
Graham, Peter W.,
Jane Austen and Charles Darwin: Naturalists and Novelists
January 5, 2009
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
John Holmes
Levine, George,
Darwin Loves You
April 19, 2012
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
John Holmes
Engels, Eve-Marie and Thomas F. Glick (eds),
The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe
May 26, 2015
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
John Holmes
Levine, George,
Realism, Ethics and Secularism
April 10, 2009
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Gavin Budge
Straley, Jessica,
Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children’s Literature
June 5, 2019
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Will Tattersdill
Bould, Mark and Sherryl Vint,
The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction
January 10, 2012
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Will Tattersdill
Brooke, Keith (ed),
Strange Divisions & Alien Territories
January 15, 2013
in
General and Theory
,
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
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