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Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in November 2017 Michael Lundblad (ed.), Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human Maureen Tuthill, Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel: Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine Paul Budra and Clifford Werier (eds), Shakespeare and Consciousness Michael Burke and Emily…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in October 2017 Peter Garratt (ed), The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture J D Fleming, The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England: John Wilkins and the Universal Character John Holmes and Sharon Ruston (eds), The Routledge Research Companion to…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in September 2017 Laura White, The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World Matthew Escobar, The Persistence of the Human: Consciousness, Meta-body and Survival in Contemporary Film and Literature Karin Koehler, Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication: Letters, Telegrams and…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in August 2017 Katharina Boehm, Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood: Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman Janina Wellmann, The Form of Becoming. Embryology and the…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in July 2017 Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence Gillian Beer, Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-Hyun Kim (eds.), Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power Andrew…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in June 2017 Graham Harman, Immaterialism: Objects and Social Theory Marc Flandreau, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: a Financial History of Victorian Britain Somogy Varga, Naturalism, Interpretation and Mental Disorder Suzanne Bailey, Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry Mark Offord,…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in May 2017 Barbara K. Seeber, Jane Austen and Animals Jan Golinski, The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science Stephanie Shirilan, Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy Peter de Bolla, The Architecture of Concepts:…

Call for Reviewers The BSLS Reviews site, which publishes c 60 reviews a year, is looking for suitably qualified reviewers for some books that have come in recently. Reviews are c 1000w, and are generally due within three months. You can find a list of the books available for review here. If you are interested,…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in April 2017 Devin Griffiths, The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature between the Darwins Jonathan Strauss, Human Remains: Medicine, Death and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris Evaldas Nekrašas, The Positive Mind: Its Development and Impact on Modernity and Postmodernity Sam Solnick, Poetry…

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,…