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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.
www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/ricc...
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 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...
www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/ricc...
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...
BSHS Online Lecture – Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin and the Dawn of Modern Science by Renee Bergland
More info here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/bshs...
More info here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/bshs...
BSHS Online Lecture – Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin and the Dawn of Modern Science by Renee Bergland – The British Society for Literature and Science
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November 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
BSHS Online Lecture – Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin and the Dawn of Modern Science by Renee Bergland
More info here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/bshs...
More info here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/bshs...
Would anyone like to review Hemingway and Posthumanism, edited by Marcos Antonio Norris, Ryan Hediger (edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hemingw...)? Contact bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Hemingway and Posthumanism
Hemingway and Posthumanism
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November 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Would anyone like to review Hemingway and Posthumanism, edited by Marcos Antonio Norris, Ryan Hediger (edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hemingw...)? Contact bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Who would like to review James Green's Sensation Fiction and Modernity: The Meanings of Ambivalence in Mid-Victorian Britain (link.springer.com/book/10.1007...)? Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Sensation Fiction and Modernity
This book offers new perspectives on the relationship between the Victorian sensation novel and modernity as one of intellectual and moral discontinuities.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Who would like to review James Green's Sensation Fiction and Modernity: The Meanings of Ambivalence in Mid-Victorian Britain (link.springer.com/book/10.1007...)? Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
CFP: Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
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Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
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CFP: Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World – The British Society for Literature and Science
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November 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
CFP: Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
See more: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/cfp-...
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
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CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850
Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June, 2026
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Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June, 2026
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CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850 – The British Society for Literature and Science
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November 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850
Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June, 2026
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Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June, 2026
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Would anyone like to review Discovering the Okapi: Western Science, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Search for a Rainforest Enigma, by Simon Pooley (www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...)? Email bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Discovering the Okapi
Western Science, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Search for a Rainforest Enigma
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October 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Would anyone like to review Discovering the Okapi: Western Science, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Search for a Rainforest Enigma, by Simon Pooley (www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...)? Email bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Who would like to review Zombies in Contemporary Culture: Journeys, Bodies, Pandemics and Politics, edited by Conor Heffernan, Emma Tonkin, and Linda Flores Ohlson (www.uwp.co.uk/book/zombies...)? Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Zombies in Contemporary Culture | UWP
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October 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Who would like to review Zombies in Contemporary Culture: Journeys, Bodies, Pandemics and Politics, edited by Conor Heffernan, Emma Tonkin, and Linda Flores Ohlson (www.uwp.co.uk/book/zombies...)? Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
We would like to review Daniel Williams's The Art of Uncertainty: Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel (www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...). If you're keen, let us know at bslsreviews@gmail.com.
The Art of Uncertainty
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - The Art of Uncertainty
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October 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
We would like to review Daniel Williams's The Art of Uncertainty: Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel (www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...). If you're keen, let us know at bslsreviews@gmail.com.
Who would like to review Grazia Pulvirenti and Renata Gambino's Mind the Text! Neurohermeneutics for Suspicious Readers (cambridgescholars.com/product/978-...)? Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com.
Mind the Text! Neurohermeneutics for Suspicious Readers – Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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October 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Who would like to review Grazia Pulvirenti and Renata Gambino's Mind the Text! Neurohermeneutics for Suspicious Readers (cambridgescholars.com/product/978-...)? Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com.
We would like to review John MacNeill Miller's The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to Science (academic.oup.com/isle/article...). If you're keen, contact bslsreviews@gmail.com.
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October 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
We would like to review John MacNeill Miller's The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to Science (academic.oup.com/isle/article...). If you're keen, contact bslsreviews@gmail.com.
Who would like to review Stephanie M. Hilger's Medicalizing Difference (www.bloomsbury.com/uk/medicaliz...)? Contact bslsreviews@gmail.com.
Medicalizing Difference
Exploring 18th-century medicine's construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as “hermaphrodites”, this book focuses on the genre of the case h…
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October 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Who would like to review Stephanie M. Hilger's Medicalizing Difference (www.bloomsbury.com/uk/medicaliz...)? Contact bslsreviews@gmail.com.
Would anyone like to review Jonathan Hay's Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene (www.bloomsbury.com/uk/science-f...). Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene
With science fiction stories imagining futures and worlds vastly different from our own, and posthuman philosophies radically reconceptualising our species' pla…
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October 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Would anyone like to review Jonathan Hay's Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene (www.bloomsbury.com/uk/science-f...). Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
We would like to review Loredana Filip, Self-Help in the Digital Age (www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...). Please get in touch if you're interested at bslsreviews@gmail.com.
Self-Help in the Digital Age
In an age where science and technology hold sway and the humanities face a crisis, this book explores the evolving role of literature. It delves into how American self-help culture shapes contemporary...
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October 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We would like to review Loredana Filip, Self-Help in the Digital Age (www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...). Please get in touch if you're interested at bslsreviews@gmail.com.
We would like to review Kevin Padraic Donnelly, The Descent of Artificial Intelligence: A Deep History of An Idea Four Hundred Years in the Making (upittpress.org/books/978082...). Please get in touch if you're interested at bslsreviews@gmail.com.
The Descent of Artificial Intelligence - University of Pittsburgh Press
|9780822947967|A Deep History of an Idea Four Hundred Years in the Making|The idea that a new technology could challenge human intelligence is as old as the warning from Socrates and Plato that writte...
upittpress.org
October 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We would like to review Kevin Padraic Donnelly, The Descent of Artificial Intelligence: A Deep History of An Idea Four Hundred Years in the Making (upittpress.org/books/978082...). Please get in touch if you're interested at bslsreviews@gmail.com.
Would anyone like to review Patrick Armstrong, Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction: Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett (www.bloomsbury.com/uk/microscop...)? Contact bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction
Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers – D. H.…
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October 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Would anyone like to review Patrick Armstrong, Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction: Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett (www.bloomsbury.com/uk/microscop...)? Contact bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Would anyone like to review Sofia Ahlberg's Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of Ecological Crisis (www.bloomsbury.com/us/magic-lit...)? Please contact bslsreviews@gmail.com.
Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of Ecological Crisis
Channeling the creative potential of humanity to transition towards joyous and just futures in times of life-threatening climate change, this book uses metaphor…
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October 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Would anyone like to review Sofia Ahlberg's Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of Ecological Crisis (www.bloomsbury.com/us/magic-lit...)? Please contact bslsreviews@gmail.com.
Call for Papers – BSLS Winter Symposium 2026: Alternate Histories of the Body.
30th January 2026.
See full CfP here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
30th January 2026.
See full CfP here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
Call for Papers – BSLS Winter Symposium January 30th 2026: Alternate Histories of the Body – The British Society for Literature and Science
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October 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Call for Papers – BSLS Winter Symposium 2026: Alternate Histories of the Body.
30th January 2026.
See full CfP here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
30th January 2026.
See full CfP here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
Would anyone like to review Strange Intimacies – Affect, Embodiment and Materiality in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys by Eret Talviste (edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-strange...). Contact bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Strange Intimacies – Affect, Embodiment and Materiality in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys
Strange Intimacies – Affect, Embodiment and Materiality in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys
edinburghuniversitypress.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Would anyone like to review Strange Intimacies – Affect, Embodiment and Materiality in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys by Eret Talviste (edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-strange...). Contact bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
We have Shannon Lambert's book Science and Affect in Contemporary Literature: Bodies of Knowledge for review (www.bloomsbury.com/us/science-a...). If you're keen, contact bslsreviews@gmail.com.
Science and Affect in Contemporary Literature
Moving from the micro world of quantum physics to the macro scales of earth science and ecology, this book considers how, in contemporary literature, affective…
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October 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
We have Shannon Lambert's book Science and Affect in Contemporary Literature: Bodies of Knowledge for review (www.bloomsbury.com/us/science-a...). If you're keen, contact bslsreviews@gmail.com.
Would anyone like to review The Human and the Machine in Literature and Culture: Cultures of Automation, edited by Kate Foster and Molly Crozier (www.routledge.com/The-Human-an...)? Contact bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
The Human and the Machine in Literature and Culture: Cultures of Automation
Automation is everywhere: in the supermarket, in home appliances, and on our commutes. While we worry about what automation means for human autonomy now, human societies have long wondered about their...
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October 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Would anyone like to review The Human and the Machine in Literature and Culture: Cultures of Automation, edited by Kate Foster and Molly Crozier (www.routledge.com/The-Human-an...)? Contact bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Event this Thursday!
Living with the planet LATE - Thu 9 Oct 2025, 18:00 - 21:30
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Living with the planet LATE - Thu 9 Oct 2025, 18:00 - 21:30
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Living with the planet LATE – Thu 9 Oct 2025, 18:00 – 21:30 – The British Society for Literature and Science
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October 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Event this Thursday!
Living with the planet LATE - Thu 9 Oct 2025, 18:00 - 21:30
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Living with the planet LATE - Thu 9 Oct 2025, 18:00 - 21:30
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