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Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in March 2017 Rosalind Ridley, Peter Pan and the Mind of J M Barrie: An Exploration of Cognition and Consciousness Karen Bourrier, The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel Laura Marcus, Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema Deborah Lupton,…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in February 2017 Miriam Wallraven, Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture: Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches Kathleen Frederickson, The Ploy of Instinct: Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance Ayesha Ramachandran, The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in January 2017 Wyatt Bonikowski, Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction Jon Klancher, Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age Richard D Fulton and Peter H Hoffenberg…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in December 2016 Anne Green, Changing France: Literature and Material Culture in the Second Empire Will Tattersdill, Science, Fiction and the Fin-de-Siècle Periodical Press Katja Guenther, Localization and its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines A list of books for…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in November 2016 Anna Henchman, The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature Tommy Dickinson, ‘Curing Queers’: Mental Nurses and their Patients, 1935-74 Gowan Dawson, Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in October 2016 David Spanagel, DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton: Geology and Power in Early New York Tina Young Choi, Anonymous Connections: The Body and Narratives of the Social in Victorian Britain Karin Sellberg, Lena Wånggren, and Kamillea Aghtan (eds), Corporeality and…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in September 2016 Marco Catani and Stefano Sandrone, Brain Renaissance: From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience Charis Charalampous, Rethinking the Mind-Body Relationship in Early Modern Literature, Philosophy and Medicine Craig Martin, Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History and Philosophy in Early Modern Science A list…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in August 2016 Mark Frost, The Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St George: A Revisionary History John Slater, Maríaluz López-Terrada and José Pardo-Tomás (eds), Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire J P Telotte & Gerald Duchovnay, eds, Science Fiction,…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in July 2016 Trevor Dodman, Shell Shock, Memory, and the Novel in the Wake of World War I Esther L. Jones, Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction Valerie Purton (ed), Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in June 2016 Maria Zarimis, Darwin’s Footprint: Cultural Perspectives on Evolution in Greece (1880-1930s) Lorraine Ryan, Memory and Spatiality in Post-Millennial Spanish Narrative A list of books for which we are currently seeking reviewers can be found here. Please email Gavin Budge…