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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:
Elizabeth Askey
Roe, Nicholas (ed),
John Keats and the Medical Imagination
August 27, 2018
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Gabriel Schenk
Campbell, Ian,
Arabic Science Fiction
July 14, 2019
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
James Rakoczi
Thornber, Karen Laura,
Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care
December 18, 2020
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Shahira A. Hathout
Hall, Alice (ed),
Contemporary Literature and the Body: A Critical Introduction
December 20, 2023
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Temitope Dorcas Adetoyese
Chi, Chienyn, Madness,
Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature
June 5, 2025
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
Tim Fulford
Knellwolf, Christa and Jane Goodall (eds),
Frankenstein’s Science
March 16, 2009
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Tim Fulford
Holmes, Richard,
The Age of Wonder
February 9, 2010
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Martin Willis
Grimes, Hilary,
The Late Victorian Gothic
November 6, 2012
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Theodora Domotor
Narain, Mona and Karen Gevirtz (eds),
Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660-1820
February 29, 2016
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Caroline King
Telotte, J P and Gerald Duchovnay (eds),
Science Fiction, Double Feature: The Science Fiction Film as Cult Text
August 15, 2016
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Elizabeth Askey
Offord, Mark,
Wordsworth and the Art of Philosophical Travel
June 8, 2017
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Neil MacFarlane
Boehm, Katharina,
Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood: Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture
August 2, 2017
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Nick Lavery
Burke, Michael and Emily T Troscianko (eds),
Cognitive Literary Science: Dialogues between Literature and Cognition
November 20, 2017
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
Philippa Chun
Farrell, Molly,
Counting Bodies: Population in Colonial American Writing
March 6, 2018
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Anna Brunton
Calvert, Bronwen,
Being Bionic: The World of TV Cyborgs
June 19, 2018
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
James Green
Ifill, Helena,
Creating Character: Theories of Nature and Nurture in Victorian Sensation Fiction
October 24, 2018
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Eva Rüskamp
Clark, Timothy,
The Value of Ecocriticism
October 18, 2019
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
Will Abberley
Benton, Michael J.,
The Dinosaurs Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting History
June 1, 2023
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Carolina Ciucci
Passey, Joan,
Cornish Gothic, 1830-1912
March 18, 2024
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Vaibhav Pathak
Farzin, Sina, Gaines, Susan M. and Haynes, Roslynn D.,
Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel
November 8, 2024
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Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
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