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  • May 2016 in BSLS Reviews

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    Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in May 2016 Elizabeth Yale, Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain Justin D Edwards (ed.), Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic Tim Lewens,…

  • March 2016 in BSLS Reviews

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    Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in March 2016 Daniel Brown, The Poetry of Victorian Scientists: Style, Science and Nonsense Mary Thomas Crane, Losing touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England Allen MacDuffie, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination Christina Walter, Optical Impersonality: Science,…

  • February 2016 in BSLS Reviews

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    Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in February 2016 Eckart Voigts, Barbara Schaff and Monika Pietrzak-Franger (eds.), Reflecting on Darwin Jen E Boyle, Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature Larry Duffy, Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge Mona Narain and Karen Gevirtz (eds.), Gender and Space in British…

  • January 2016 in BSLS Reviews

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    Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in January 2016 Evan Gottlieb and Juliet Shields (eds.) Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660–1830: From Local to Global Johan Höglund, The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence Brad Pasanek, Metaphors of Mind: An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary Victoria Flanagan, Technology…

  • December 2015 in BSLS Reviews

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    Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in December 2015 Jennifer Munro, Edward Geisweidt, and Lynne Bruckner (eds.), Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts: A Field Guide to Reading and Teaching Gavin Budge, Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural: Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres, 1789-1852 Christopher Hamlin, More Than Hot: A…

  • November 2015 in BSLS reviews

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    Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in November 2015 Paul Youngquist, Cyberfiction: After the Future Kathryn St. Ours, Where Science and Literature Meet: The Earthy Writing of Jean-Loup Trassard Alexander Dick, Romanticism and the Gold Standard: Money, Literature and Economic Debate in Britain 1790-1830 A list of books…

  • SHAC Workshop: History of Alchemy and Chemistry

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    Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge This one day workshop, aimed particularly at postgraduates and early career researchers, introduces and explores historiographical and methodological issues unique to the history of alchemy and chemistry. We will investigate the practical challenges of researching chemistry over different periods, from pre-modern matter theories and artisanal…

  • BSLS Book Prize for 2008

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    The British Society for Literature and Science is pleased to invite nominations for the annual BSLS Book Prize. The prize of £150 will be awarded to the best book published in 2008 in the field of literature and science. We therefore invite nominations, including self-nominations, for books to be considered. Monographs, edited volumes, editions, and…

  • Metrics and journals in the history of science, technology and medicine

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    The following statement is being printed in the editorial pages of many of the major journals in science studies: Journals under Threat: A Joint Response from History of Science, Technology and Medicine Editors We live in an age of metrics. All around us, things are being standardized, quantified, measured. Scholars concerned with the work of…

  • LAUNCH OF THE JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND SCIENCE

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    UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN, CARDIFF, SEPTEMBER 12 THE JLS The Journal of Literature and Science is a new, peer-reviewed, online journal hosted by Glamorgan’s Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science, founded in 2006. The Centre directors are Professors Andrew Smith & Jeff Wallace, and Dr Martin Willis, who is also the Journal of Literature and…

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