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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:
Sally Blackburn
Murray, Alex,
Landscapes of Decadence: Literature and Place at the Fin de Siècle
June 21, 2017
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Carl White
Cordle, Daniel,
Late Cold War Literature and Culture: The Nuclear 1980s
August 28, 2017
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Marina Fleck
Crowley, Caroline and Denis Linehan (eds),
Spacing Ireland: Place, Society and Culture in a Post-Boom Era
December 28, 2017
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Annika Gonnerman
Marks, Peter,
Imagining Surveillance: Eutopian and Dystopian Literature and Film
April 27, 2018
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Erin Lafford
Carlson, Julia S.,
Romantic Marks and Measures: Wordsworth’s Poetry in Fields of Print
July 31, 2018
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Adrian Tait
Barry, Peter and William Welstead (eds),
Extending Ecocriticism: Crisis, Collaboration and Challenge in the Environmental Humanities
March 8, 2019
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
Bethany Brigham
Dittmer, Nicole C. and Sophie Raine (eds),
Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic: Investigations of Pernicious Tales of Terror
August 8, 2023
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Indulekha M S
Nüsslein-Volhard, Christiane,
Animal Beauty: On the Evolution of Biological Aesthetics
May 21, 2024
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
Pete Orford
Fallon, Richard,
Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature: How the ‘Terrible Lizard’ Became a Transatlantic Cultural Icon
April 10, 2025
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Alistair Brown
Brake, Mark L. and Neil Hook,
Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science
December 12, 2008
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
R. S. Koppen
Colligan, Colette and Margaret Linley (eds),
Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century and Alex Goody, Technology, Literature and Culture
February 6, 2012
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Kalika Sands
Hamlin, Christopher,
More Than Hot: A Short History of Fever
December 27, 2015
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
Eleanor Dobson
Malley, Shawn,
From Archaeology to Spectacle in Victorian Britain: The Case of Assyria, 1845-1854
May 23, 2016
in
Reviews
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Romantic and Victorian
Sarah Hanks
Willis, Martin (ed),
Staging Science: Scientific Performance on Street, Stage and Screen
November 7, 2016
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
Carolyn D. Williams
Seeber, Barbara K.,
Jane Austen and Animals
May 2, 2017
in
Reviews
,
Romantic and Victorian
Catherine J W Lee
Parens, Erik,
Shaping Our Selves: On Technology, Flourishing and a Habit of Thinking
July 12, 2017
in
General and Theory
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Reviews
Gemma Curto
Beck, Ulrich,
The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change Is Transforming Our Concept of the World
September 17, 2017
in
Modern and Contemporary
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Reviews
Jessica C Hume
DeShazer, Mary K.,
Mammographies: The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives
January 27, 2018
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
Natalie Monzyk
Botting, Fred and Catherine Spooner (eds),
Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects: Imaging Gothic from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
May 10, 2018
in
General and Theory
,
Reviews
Yanos Soubieski
Brown, Alfie,
The Playstation Dreamworld (Theory Redux)
July 14, 2019
in
Modern and Contemporary
,
Reviews
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