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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:
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
,
Reviews
James Green
Ifill, Helena,
Creating Character: Theories of Nature and Nurture in Victorian Sensation Fiction
October 24, 2018
in
Reviews
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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
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Snehal Anni
Joseph, May and Varino, Sofia,
Aquatopia: Climate Interventions
September 9, 2025
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
Amanda Mordavsky Caleb
Blair, Kirstie,
Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart
April 7, 2008
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Alistair Brown
Yi, Dongshin,
A Genealogy of Cyborgothic
September 1, 2010
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Patrick Parrinder
Crossley, Robert,
Imagining Mars
November 20, 2011
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Jessica Evans
Packham, Catherine,
Eighteenth-Century Vitalism
April 22, 2013
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Marie Kent
Björkén-Nyberg, Cecilia,
The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel
October 20, 2015
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Katherine Walker
Eggert, Katherine,
Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England
March 30, 2016
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
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Reviews
Melissa Dickson
Choi, Tina Young,
Anonymous Connections: The Body and Narratives of the Social in Victorian Britain
October 14, 2016
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Kalika Sands
Sultzbach, Kelly,
Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination: Forster, Woolf, and Auden
June 26, 2017
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Megan Kenny
Kandel, Eric R,
Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures
August 30, 2017
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
Joe Holloway
Pietrzak-Franger, Monika,
Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture: Medicine, Knowledge, and the Spectacle of Invisibility
January 27, 2018
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Heather Witcher
Rosen, Jeff,
Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘Fancy Subjects’: Photographic Allegories of Victorian Identity and Empire
April 27, 2018
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Rebecca Spence
Zon, Bennett,
Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture
August 8, 2018
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
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