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Who would like to review Michael D. Gordin and W. Patrick McGray's, book Greedy Science: Creating Knowledge, Making Money, and Being Famous in the 1980s (www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...). Contact bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Greedy Science
Creating Knowledge, Making Money, and Being Famous in the 1980s
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February 2, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Who would like to review Michael D. Gordin and W. Patrick McGray's, book Greedy Science: Creating Knowledge, Making Money, and Being Famous in the 1980s (www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...). Contact bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Would anyone like to review a poetry collection for the BSLS website: They gather around me, the animals, by Kunjana Parashar (www.barnesandnoble.com/w/they-gathe...). Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
They Gather Around Me, the Animals|Paperback
Selected by Diane Seuss as winner of the 2024 Barbara Stevens Poetry Book AwardNational Federation of State Poetry SocietiesThe brilliance of Kunjana Parashar's They Gather Around Me, the Animals glea...
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February 2, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Would anyone like to review a poetry collection for the BSLS website: They gather around me, the animals, by Kunjana Parashar (www.barnesandnoble.com/w/they-gathe...). Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
We have a new review on our website. Raul Martin IV has reviewed Eleanor Keisman's book, New Animal (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/01/keis...).
Keisman, Eleanor, New Animal – The British Society for Literature and Science
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January 26, 2026 at 2:15 PM
We have a new review on our website. Raul Martin IV has reviewed Eleanor Keisman's book, New Animal (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/01/keis...).
CfP Deadline approaching! Friday 30th January for Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850. For the full CfP see: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/cfp-...
CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850 – The British Society for Literature and Science
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January 21, 2026 at 11:19 AM
CfP Deadline approaching! Friday 30th January for Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850. For the full CfP see: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/cfp-...
We have a new review on the BSLS website. Manan Rathod reviews Paul De Kruif's The Drama of Discovery: How Microbe Hunters Shaped Popular Understandings of Microbiology (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/01/de-k...)
De Kruif, Paul, The Drama of Discovery: How Microbe Hunters Shaped Popular Understandings of Microbiology – The British Society for Literature and Science
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January 20, 2026 at 3:17 PM
We have a new review on the BSLS website. Manan Rathod reviews Paul De Kruif's The Drama of Discovery: How Microbe Hunters Shaped Popular Understandings of Microbiology (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/01/de-k...)
Would anyone like to review The Tenant in the Mind: Consciousness and Its Imperatives by Mark Christhilf (markchristhilf.com/works-on-the...)? Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
The Tenant in the Mind - markchristhilf.com
The Tenant in the Mind Unlike animals, human beings seek the meaning of existence. We want to know why we are here, whether life has a purpose, and if so, what it is. Such questions emanate from consc...
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January 20, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Would anyone like to review The Tenant in the Mind: Consciousness and Its Imperatives by Mark Christhilf (markchristhilf.com/works-on-the...)? Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
We have a new review on the site, Ananya Roy has reviewed Kate Foster and Molly Crozier (eds), The Human and the Machine in Literature and Culture: Cultures of Automation – The British Society for Literature and Science (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/01/fost...)
Foster, Kate and Crozier, Molly (eds), The Human and the Machine in Literature and Culture: Cultures of Automation – The British Society for Literature and Science
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January 20, 2026 at 3:12 PM
We have a new review on the site, Ananya Roy has reviewed Kate Foster and Molly Crozier (eds), The Human and the Machine in Literature and Culture: Cultures of Automation – The British Society for Literature and Science (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/01/fost...)
Tita Chico has reviewed Lucinda Cole's, The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities and you can read the review on our website here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/01/cole...
Cole, Lucinda, The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities – The British Society for Literature and Science
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January 20, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Tita Chico has reviewed Lucinda Cole's, The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities and you can read the review on our website here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/01/cole...
We have a new review on our website: Alanna Skuse's, Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature, reviewed by Chloe Wilcox (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/01/skus...)
Skuse, Alanna, Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature – The British Society for Literature and Science
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January 20, 2026 at 3:05 PM
We have a new review on our website: Alanna Skuse's, Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature, reviewed by Chloe Wilcox (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/01/skus...)
Winter Newsletter Call for Submissions! See: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/01/wint...
Winter Newsletter Call for Submissions – The British Society for Literature and Science
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January 7, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Winter Newsletter Call for Submissions! See: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/01/wint...
Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World Online Lecture Series
![Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World Online Lecture Series 2026
Cultures of Philosophy, University fo Exeter
Thursday 29 January 4 pm UK | 5 pm Italy
Natalia Zorrilla Sirlin (McGill University | Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
Origin Stories of Gender Inequality in early modern Feminist Philosophy
Thursday 12 February 4 pm UK | 5 pm Sweden
Cecelia Rosenberg (University of Gothenburg)
Women as Agents of the Enlightenment in 18th-century Gothenburg
Thursday 19 March 4 pm UK | 5 pm Italy
Natacha Fabbri (University of Siena | Galileo Museum)
Claiming the Heavens: Women, Astronomy, and Intellectual Authority in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Thursday 16 April 9 am UK | 6 pm Sydney
Dalia Nassar (University of Sydney)
Diotima’s Daughters: Women Philosophers on Love, Beauty, Goodness and Truth in the Early Romantic Period
Thursday 30 April 4 pm UK & Ireland
Derval Conroy (University College Dublin)
Constructing a Philosophy of Celibacy: Gabrielle Suchon’s Le Célibat Volontaire ou la Vie Sans Engagement (1700)
Thursday 14 May 4.30 pm UK |11.30 am ET
Ann Pang-White (University of Scranton) Two Early Modern Women Thinkers of China: Empress Renxiaowen and Madame Liu
Thursday 18 June 9 am UK | 5 pm South Korea
Hwayeong Wang (Duke Kunshan University)
Women Writing Confucian Philosophy in Late Joseon Korea: Im Yunjidang and Gang Jeongildang
This work is supported by the European Research Council-selected Starting Grant, ‘Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number EP/Y006372/1].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rzq5zunxfwpjy4kjzb7n7bpp/bafkreidhl76ljoatdvmegmmy3k4pc2bqa4soyzxgf75wg2hynnhzijqige@jpeg)
January 7, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World Online Lecture Series
We have published a new book review on our website: Mahroof Mohammad reviews Jasper Joseph-Lester, , Ahuvia Kahane, Simon King, and Esther Leslie (eds), Walking in Cities: Navigating Post-Pandemic Urban Environments (www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/12/jose...).
Joseph-Lester, Jasper, Kahane, Ahuvia, King, Simon and Leslie, Esther (eds), Walking in Cities: Navigating Post-Pandemic Urban Environments – The British Society for Literature and Science
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December 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
We have published a new book review on our website: Mahroof Mohammad reviews Jasper Joseph-Lester, , Ahuvia Kahane, Simon King, and Esther Leslie (eds), Walking in Cities: Navigating Post-Pandemic Urban Environments (www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/12/jose...).
We have a new book review on our website, Ashitha B. Arun reviews Jeremy Howick's The Power of Placebos (www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/12/howi...).
Howick, Jeremy, The Power of Placebos: How the Science of Placebos and Nocebos Can Improve Health Care – The British Society for Literature and Science
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December 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
We have a new book review on our website, Ashitha B. Arun reviews Jeremy Howick's The Power of Placebos (www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/12/howi...).
Would anyone like to review Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature by Alanna Skuse (link.springer.com/book/10.1007...)? Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Hurt Feelings
This open access book offers the first full study of the phenomenon of self-wounding as it is represented in early modern literature.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Would anyone like to review Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature by Alanna Skuse (link.springer.com/book/10.1007...)? Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
CfP Deadline Approaching! The deadline to submit an abstract for this year's BSLS conference is this Friday (12th Dec) more details here: www.bsls.ac.uk/conference20...
Conference 2026 – Strathclyde – The British Society for Literature and Science
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December 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
CfP Deadline Approaching! The deadline to submit an abstract for this year's BSLS conference is this Friday (12th Dec) more details here: www.bsls.ac.uk/conference20...
Nominations for this year's BSLS Book Prize are now open. Publishers and BSLS Members can nominate any book published in the 2025 calendar year. Nominations are open until 31st December. For more info see our book prize page: www.bsls.ac.uk/prizes/bsls-...
BSLS book prize – The British Society for Literature and Science
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December 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Nominations for this year's BSLS Book Prize are now open. Publishers and BSLS Members can nominate any book published in the 2025 calendar year. Nominations are open until 31st December. For more info see our book prize page: www.bsls.ac.uk/prizes/bsls-...
We'd like to review Anton Kirchhofer und Karsten Levihn-Kutzler's Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives (heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...). Can you help? Contact bslsreviews@gmail.com.
Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives | Heidelberg University Publishing
Anton Kirchhofer ist Professor für Englische Literatur an der Universität Oldenburg. Er ist einer der Gründungsdirektoren des Forschungsverbunds Fiction Meets Science. Im Zentrum seiner Forschung stehen Literatur und Erzählen in ihren unterschiedlichen diskursiven Kontexten.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We'd like to review Anton Kirchhofer und Karsten Levihn-Kutzler's Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives (heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...). Can you help? Contact bslsreviews@gmail.com.
Would you like to review Sophie Chiari's Shakespeare’s Ecology of Natural Resources (www.bloomsbury.com/uk/shakespea...)? Please contact bslsreivews@gmail.com.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Would you like to review Sophie Chiari's Shakespeare’s Ecology of Natural Resources (www.bloomsbury.com/uk/shakespea...)? Please contact bslsreivews@gmail.com.
Who would like to review Race, Genetics, History
New Practices, New Approaches (www.cambridge.org/core/element...). Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com.
New Practices, New Approaches (www.cambridge.org/core/element...). Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com.
Race, Genetics, History
Cambridge Core - Global History - Race, Genetics, History
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December 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Who would like to review Race, Genetics, History
New Practices, New Approaches (www.cambridge.org/core/element...). Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com.
New Practices, New Approaches (www.cambridge.org/core/element...). Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com.
Is anyone keen to review Livia Arndal’s Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel (ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...)? Contact bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel
Traces the connections between the medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth occurring over the Victorian era and contemporary and historical lived experiences to argue for the value of somatic reading.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Is anyone keen to review Livia Arndal’s Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel (ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...)? Contact bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Would anyone like to review Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Jessica Cox? (thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/...). Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Confinement
‘An important, fascinating and frequently shocking read.’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, Other Covering a fascinating period of population growth, high infant mortality and deep social in...
thehistorypress.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Would anyone like to review Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Jessica Cox? (thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/...). Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
A new review has been published on the BSLS website: Lucy Davies reviews Silvia Riccardi's Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art, and the Body (www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/ricc...)
Riccardi, Silvia, Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art, and the Body – The British Society for Literature and Science
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November 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
A new review has been published on the BSLS website: Lucy Davies reviews Silvia Riccardi's Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art, and the Body (www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/ricc...)
We have a new review on our website: Lucy Davies reviews Silvia Riccardi's Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art, and the Body.
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Riccardi, Silvia, Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art, and the Body – The British Society for Literature and Science
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November 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
We have a new review on our website: Lucy Davies reviews Silvia Riccardi's Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art, and the Body.
www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/ricc...
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Would anyone like to review Race, Genetics, History:
New Practices, New Approaches (www.cambridge.org/core/element...)? Please contact bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
New Practices, New Approaches (www.cambridge.org/core/element...)? Please contact bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Race, Genetics, History
Cambridge Core - Global History - Race, Genetics, History
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November 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Would anyone like to review Race, Genetics, History:
New Practices, New Approaches (www.cambridge.org/core/element...)? Please contact bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
New Practices, New Approaches (www.cambridge.org/core/element...)? Please contact bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
The latest edition of the BSLS Newsletter (Autumn 2025) is now available to members on the website: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/autu...
Join or Renew – The British Society for Literature and Science
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November 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The latest edition of the BSLS Newsletter (Autumn 2025) is now available to members on the website: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/autu...