February 2018 in BSLS Reviews

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Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in February 2018

• Melissa Bailes, Questioning Nature. British Women’s Scientific Writing & Literary Originality 1750-1830
• David Bradshaw, Laura Marcus, Rebecca Roach (eds), Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity
• Leif Weatherby, Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx
• Kenneth Asher, Literature, Ethics, and the Emotions
• Jon Whitman (ed.), Romance and History: Imagining Time from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period
• Sarah M Pourciau, The Writing of Spirit: Soul, System and the Roots of Language Science
• Peter Merchant and Catherine Waters (eds), Dickens and the Imagined Child
• Rajani Sudan, The Alchemy of Empire: Abject Materials and the Technologies of Colonialism

A list of books for which we are currently seeking reviewers can be found here.

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March 2018 in BSLS Reviews

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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, Counting Bodies: Population in Colonial American Writing
• Alison A Chapman, The Legal Epic: Paradise Lost and the Early Modern Law
• Adriana Craciun, Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration
• Marlene Goldman, Forgotten: Narratives of Age-Related Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease in Canada
  A list of books for which we are currently seeking reviewers can be found here.
  Please email Gavin Budge on <G.Budge@herts.ac.uk> if you would like to propose a book for review  - anything published from 2016 onwards will be considered.

April 2018 in BSLS Reviews

May 2, 2018, 2:41 am

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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 P. Scales, Radio and the Politics of Sound in Interwar France, 1921-1939
• Anna West, Thomas Hardy and Animals
• Peter Marks, Imagining Surveillance: Eutopian and Dystopian Literature and Film
• Catherine Maxwell, Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture
• Jeff Rosen, Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘Fancy Subjects’: Photographic Allegories of Victorian Identity and Empire
• Josie Billington, Is Literature Healthy?
• Al Coppola, The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

A list of books for which we are currently seeking reviewers can be found here.

Please email Gavin Budge on <G.Budge@herts.ac.uk> if you would like to propose a book for review  - anything published from 2017 onwards will be considered.

May 2018 in BSLS Reviews

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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 Pak, Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction
• Jason D. Hall, Nineteenth-Century Verse and Technology: Machines of Meter
• Colin Jones, The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Paris
• Fred Botting and Catherine Spooner (eds), Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects: Imaging Gothic from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
• Tom Furniss, Discovering the Footsteps of Time: Geological Travel Writing about Scotland, 1700-1820
• Susan L Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger, Jr., Righting America at the Creation Museum
• Jonathan Lamb, Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery
• Richard Halpern, Eclipse of Action: Tragedy and Political Economy
• Benjamin Morgan, The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science
• Alison Bashford and Joyce E. Chaplin, The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Rereading the Principle of Population
• Nathan Brown, The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics

A list of books for which we are currently seeking reviewers can be found here.

Please email Gavin Budge on <G.Budge@herts.ac.uk> if you would like to propose a book for review  - anything published from 2017 onwards will be considered.

Call for Reviewers

June 28, 2018, 3:53 am

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Call for Reviewers

The BSLS Reviews site, <https://www.bsls.ac.uk/reviews/>, which publishes c 120 reviews a year, is looking for suitably qualified reviewers for some books that have come in recently, listed on <https://www.bsls.ac.uk/reviews/currently-seeking-reviewers/>. Reviews are c 1000w, and are generally due within three months.

If you are interested, please contact the acting Reviews Editor, Gavin Budge, on <G.Budge@herts.ac.uk>, with some details about yourself and your interests, and a postal address.

June 2018 in BSLS Reviews

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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 Madness: Flights of Imagination in Britain, 1783-1786
• Bronwen Calvert, Being Bionic: The World of TV Cyborgs
• Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the Jennifer Aniston Neuron
• Paula McDowell, The Invention of the Oral: Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century Britain
• Roslynn D. Haynes, From Madman to Crime Fighter: The Scientist in Western Culture

A list of books for which we are currently seeking reviewers can be found here.

Please email Gavin Budge on <G.Budge@herts.ac.uk> if you would like to propose a book for review  - anything published from 2017 onwards will be considered.

July 2018 in BSLS Reviews

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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 Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species
• Nathaniel Isaacson, Celestial Empire: the Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction
• Julia S. Carlson, Romantic Marks and Measures: Wordsworth’s Poetry in Fields of Print

A list of books for which we are currently seeking reviewers can be found here.

Please email Gavin Budge on <G.Budge@herts.ac.uk> if you would like to propose a book for review  - anything published from 2017 onwards will be considered.

August 2018 in BSLS Reviews

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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 Doll’s House: Ibsen and Distant Visions
• J Andrew Hubbell, Byron’s Nature: A Romantic Vision of Cultural Ecology
• Margrit Pernau, Helge Jordhem et al., Civilizing Emotions. Concepts in Nineteenth-Century Asia and Europe
• Michael Jonik, Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman
• Matthew Wickman, Literature After Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment
• N. Katherine Hayles, Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious
• Wendy Wheeler, Expecting the Earth: Life, Culture, Biosemiotics
• Kirsten Strom, The Animal Surreal: The Role of Darwin, Animals, and Evolution in Surrealism
• Nicholas Roe (ed.), John Keats and the Medical Imagination
• Claire Hansen, Shakespeare and Complexity Theory

A list of books for which we are currently seeking reviewers can be found here.

Please email Gavin Budge on <G.Budge@herts.ac.uk> if you would like to propose a book for review  - anything published from 2017 onwards will be considered.

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October 2018 in BSLS Reviews

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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 Foltz, The Novel after Film: Modernism and the Decline of Autonomy
• Michael Tondre, The Physics of Possibility: Victorian Fiction, Science, and Gender
• Mary Fairclough, Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840: 'Electrick Communication Every Where'
• Alex Tankard, Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature: Invalid Lives
• Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal
• Helena Ifill, Creating Character: Theories of Nature and Nurture in Victorian Sensation Fiction
• Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett (eds), Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age
• Ron Broglio, Beasts of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism
• John Beck and Ryan Bishop (eds), Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics
• Ian Hesketh, Victorian Jesus: J.R. Seeley, Religion, and the Cultural Significance of Anonymity

A list of books for which we are currently seeking reviewers can be found here.

Please email Franziska Kohlt on <franziska.kohlt@bnc.ox.ac.uk> if you would like to propose a book for review  - anything published from 2017 onwards will be considered.

February 2019 in BSLS Reviews

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• Rachel Crossland, Modernist Physics: Waves, Particles, and Relativities in the Writings of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence
• Stella Pratt-Smith, Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
• Sylvain Belluc, and Valérie Bénéjam, eds, Cognitive Joyce
• Mark Axelrod-Sokolov, Madness in Fiction: Literary Essays from Poe to Fowles
• Peter Barry and William Welstead, eds, Extending Ecocriticism: Crisis, Collaboration and Challenge in the Environmental Humanities
• Joseph Drury, Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain
• Rebecca Laroche and Jennifer Munroe, Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory
• Amara Thornton, Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People
• Andrew Smith and William Hughes (eds), Ecogothic
• Keridiana W. Chez, Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture