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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:
Eleanor Sandry
Hyman, Wendy Beth,
The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature
October 9, 2012
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
Reviews
Laurence Davies
Ahearn, Edward J.,
Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001
September 27, 2010
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Charlotte Sleigh
Morse, Deborah Denenholz and Martin A. Danahay (eds.),
Victorian Animal Dreams
August 26, 2009
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Emily Chester
Billington, Josie,
Is Literature Healthy?
April 27, 2018
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Neil Inglis
Reid, Robert Lanier,
Renaissance Psychologies: Spenser and Shakespeare
August 10, 2018
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
Reviews
Elizabeth Askey
Laroche, Rebecca and Jennifer Munroe,
Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory
March 8, 2019
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
Reviews
Natalya Din-Kariuki
Thell, Anne M.,
Minds in Motion: Imagining Empiricism in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing
May 16, 2020
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
Reviews
Annie Williams
Freed-Thall, Hannah,
Modernism at the Beach
September 7, 2023
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Rebecca Gibson
Kremmel, Laura R.,
Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies
June 6, 2024
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Anatolii Kozlov
Taylor, Stuart J.,
Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction
May 2, 2025
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Encarnación Trinidad Barrantes
Epstein, Hugh,
Hardy, Conrad and the Senses
February 26, 2026
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
David E. Shuttleton
Lawlor, Clark,
Consumption and Literature
May 1, 2008
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Helen King
Hobby, Elaine (ed),
The Birth of Mankind
August 19, 2009
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
Reviews
Felicity Henderson
Cummins, Juliet and David Burchell (eds),
Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England
November 30, 2011
in
Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
,
Reviews
Romén Reyes-Peschl
Quiroga, Rodrigo Quian,
Borges and Memory
April 22, 2013
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Gillian Daw
Brothers, Dometa Wiegand,
The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy: On All Sides Infinity
October 21, 2015
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Charlotte Royle
Frevert, Ute et al.,
Emotional Lexicons: Continuity and Change in the Vocabulary of Feeling 1700-2000
March 30, 2016
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Doreen Thierauf
Sellberg, Karin and Lena Wånggren and Kamillea Aghtan (eds),
Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement
October 14, 2016
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Joe Holloway
Strauss, Jonathan,
Human Remains: Medicine, Death and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris
April 13, 2017
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Gurpinder Lalli
Dor, Daniel,
The Instruction of Imagination: Language as a Social Communication Technology
August 31, 2017
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
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