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Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in October 2018   Steven Meyer (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science Andrew Gaedtke, Modernism and the Machinery of Madness: Psychosis, Technology, and Narrative Worlds Matthew Wilson Smith, The Nervous Stage: Nineteenth-century Neuroscience and the Birth of Modern Theater Jonathan…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in August 2018 Paul Stephens, The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing Bennett Zon, Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture Robert Lanier Reid, Renaissance Psychologies: Spenser and Shakespeare Julie Holledge, Jonathan Bollen, Frode Helland, and Joanne Tompkins, A Global…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in July 2018   Peter J. Bowler, A History of the Future: Prophets of Progress from H. G. Wells to Isaac Asimov Debra Hawhee, Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation D. Harlan Wilson, J.G. Ballard Ursula K. Heise, Imagining Extinction: The…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in June 2018   Naomi Rokotnitz, Trusting Performance: A Cognitive Approach to Embodiment in Drama Heather Tilley, Blindness and Writing: From Wordsworth to Gissing Lana Lin, Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer Clare Brant, Balloon…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in May 2018   Simon Smith, Jacqueline Watson and Amy Kenny (eds), The Senses in Early Modern England 1558-1660 Claire Hanson, Gerri Kimber and Todd Martin (eds), Katherine Mansfield and Psychology James Whitehead, Madness and the Romantic Poet: A Critical History Chris…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in April 2018 Fay Bound Alberti, This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture Matthew Griffiths, The New Poetics of Climate Change: Modernist Aesthetics for a Warming World Michael R. Finn, Figures from the Pre-Freudian Unconscious from Flaubert to Proust Rebecca…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in March 2018 Robert T Tally Jr (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space Lorna Hutson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 Amanda Jo Goldstein, Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life Molly Farrell,…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in January 2018 Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture: Medicine, Knowledge, and the Spectacle of Invisibility Anna Katharina Schaffner, Exhaustion: A History Chad Luck, The Body of Property: Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession A David Redish, The…