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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 1d

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 [email protected].

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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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 1d

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 [email protected] 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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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 2d

Event this Thursday!
Living with the planet LATE - Thu 9 Oct 2025, 18:00 - 21:30
See More: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/livi...

Living with the planet LATE – Thu 9 Oct 2025, 18:00 – 21:30 – The British Society for Literature and Science

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 8d

This just out with Penn State University Press: Facing Decay: Beauty, Aging, and Cosmetics in Early Modern Europe (www.psupress.org/books/titles...). Would you like to review it for [email protected]?

Facing Decay: Beauty, Aging, and Cosmetics in Early Modern Europe By Erin Griffey

The pursuit of youth and beauty transcends time periods. As now, women in the early modern period also sought to turn back the clock using cosmetic recipes promising beauty and clear, younger-looking ...

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 8d

Would anyone be keen to review the Tenth-Anniversary Edition of the Graphic Medicine Manifesto (www.psupress.org/books/titles...)? Please get in touch at [email protected] if so.

Graphic Medicine Manifesto: Tenth-Anniversary Edition By MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, BySusan Merrill Squier, and Michael J. Green

A decade ago, Graphic Medicine Manifesto established a bold new framework for understanding the intersection of comics and healthcare. It was a call to action—an invitation to rethink the ways we enga...

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 15d

Would anyone like to review Royal Observatory Greenwich: A History in Objects (www.rmg.co.uk/press-releas...). Get in touch at [email protected] if so.

Royal Observatory Greenwich: A History in Objects

New Book Explores Lesser Known Stories of the Royal Observatory Greenwich to Commemorate 350th Anniversary

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 15d

Is anyone keen to review Reading D. H. Lawrence in the Anthropocene, edited by Terry Gifford (shorturl.at/QgZuM)? If so, get in touch at [email protected].

Reading D. H. Lawrence in the Anthropocene

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 15d

We have a new review on our website: Encarnación Trinidad Barrantes reviews Paul Fyfe's Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities
(www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/09/fyfe...)

Fyfe, Paul, Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities – The British Society for Literature and Science

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 20d

The English Association Webinar for Teachers - The Science of Poetry: Crossing the arts/science divide in schools (23 September 2025, 16:45 – 17:30)
For more info and to book visit: englishassociation.ac.uk/the-science-...

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 21d

CfP: BSLS Annual Conference 2026
The twenty-first annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Strathclyde, on 9th-11th April 2026 (in person).
Details including CfP here: bsls.ac.uk/conference20...

Conference 2026 – Strathclyde – The British Society for Literature and Science

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 29d

We have a new review on our website: Snehal Anni reviews May Joseph and Sofia Varino's Aquatopia: Climate Interventions: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/09/jose...

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 29d

We need someone to review Mary Chapman's Writing Women's Madness, 1845-1914 (link.springer.com/book/10.1007...). If you're interested, please get in touch at [email protected].

Writing Women's Madness, 1845-1914

This book bridges literary studies and the history of medicine to offer a unique perspective on female mental illness in the nineteenth century

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 29d

Would anyone like to review Intoxicated Ways of Knowing: The Untold Story of Intoxicants and the Biological Subject in Nineteenth-Century Germany (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...). Contact [email protected] if so.

Intoxicated Ways of Knowing

Argues that intoxication was fundamental to German physiological, psychological, and psychiatric research during the nineteenth century. Intoxicating substances can be found lurking in every corner ...

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 29d

Would anyone like to review Wired Together: The Montreal Neurological Institute and the Origins of Neuroscience (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...). Contact [email protected] if so.

Wired Together

Examines the role of an influential neurological institute in shaping a new, interdisciplinary science—neuroscience—and advancing it worldwide. Wired Together explains the rise of neuroscience by tra...

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · Sep 5

CFP: Energy Ecologies in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: 1500 to the Present
A special Focus Section for Anglistik (summer 2027, vol. 38, no. 2) edited by Paul Hamann-
Rose and Kai Merten
Details Here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/09/cfp-...

CFP: Energy Ecologies in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: 1500 to the Present – The British Society for Literature and Science

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · Aug 27

We have a new book for review Eleanor Keisman's novel New Animal (more details here: www.eleanorkeisman.com/new-animal-a...). Please contact [email protected] if you would like to review this book.

New Animal - a novella | Eleanor Keisman

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · Aug 27

We have a new review on the BSLS website: Lavanya Arora reviews Rebecca A. Durham's Be Still Mere Molecule (www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/08/durh...)

Durham, Rebecca A., Be Still Mere Molecule – The British Society for Literature and Science

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · Aug 19

We have a new book review on our website, Alice Dodds has reviewed Jim Endersby's The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology’s Imaginary Futures 1900–1935 (www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/08/ende...)

Endersby, Jim, The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology’s Imaginary Futures 1900–1935 – The British Society for Literature and Science

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · Aug 8

We have a new review on our website: Nayanika Shome reviews Brycchan Carey's The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807 (www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/08/care...)

Carey, Brycchan, The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807 – The British Society for Literature and Science

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · Aug 6

We have a new review on our website! Temitope Dorcas Adetoyese reviews Chelsea Berry's Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World (bsls.ac.uk/2025/08/berr...)

Berry, Chelsea, Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World – The British Society for Literature and Science

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · Jul 21

Call for Papers: Poetry and Science, From the Renaissance to Enlightenment

www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/07/call... ‎

https://www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/07/call-for-papers-…to-enlightenment/

The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · Jul 8

Would anyone like to review Artificial Life After Frankenstein by Eileen M. Hunt (www.pennpress.org/978151282617...). Contact [email protected].

Artificial Life After Frankenstein – Penn Press

Artificial Life After Frankenstein brings the insights born of Mary Shelley's legacy to bear upon the ethics and politics of making artificial life and intel...

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · Jul 8

Would anyone like to review Dangerous Creations:
The Inventor Novel in Fin-de-Siècle France by Ana I. Oancea (www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9781487546250/html)? Get in touch at [email protected] if so.

Dangerous Creations

Dangerous Creations investigates a previously unidentified genre of nineteenth-century French literature – the inventor novel – where science fiction, naturalism, and decadence intersect.

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · Jul 8

Would anyone like to review this book for the BSLS: Symptomatic Subjects; Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England by Julie Orlemanski (www.pennpress.org/978081225090...). Get in touch at [email protected] if so.

Symptomatic Subjects – Penn Press

In the period just prior to medicine's modernity—before the rise of Renaissance anatomy, the centralized regulation of medical practice, and the valorizati...

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · Jun 24

We have a new book review on our website: Catherine Bowden has reviewed N. Katherine Hayles, Bacteria to AI: Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts (www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/06/hayl...)

Hayles, N. Katherine, Bacteria to AI: Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts – The British Society for Literature and Science

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