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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.
heiup.uni-heidelberg.de
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.
ohiostatepress.org
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.
www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/ricc...
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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...
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
See more: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/cfp-...
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
See More: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/cfp-...
Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June, 2026
See More: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/cfp-...
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…
www.bloomsbury.com
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...
www.degruyterbrill.com
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.