CoSciLit Conference 2026 – Registration now open
For more see: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/04/cosc...

If you are an ECR or PGR who presented at this years' conference at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social, please do consider submitting a polished draft of your paper!

The BSLS and the JLS are pleased to announce the opening of the 2026 PGR/ECR Essay Prize Competition! Entries should be between 4,000-5,000 words in length, and are due by 5 June. More details here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/04/call...

William Blake and Romantic Biology Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - William Blake and Romantic Biology

Would anyone like to review Tara Lee's William Blake and Romantic Biology: Evolution, Originality, and Organic Form (www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...)? Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.

We have a new review on the BSLS website: Jake Street reviewing Evie Kendal's Science Fiction and the Ethics of Artificial Wombs (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/04/kend...).

Would anyone like to review Sally Shuttleworth's new book In Quest of a Cure: Literary and Medical Cultures of the Health Resort (global.oup.com/academic/pro...)? Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.

We have a new review on our website: Nithya Maheswari Chidam reviews Kunjana Parashar's They Gather Around Me, The Animals (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/para...).

We have a new review on our website: Georgina Kosanovic reviews Sofia Ahlberg's book Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of Ecological Crisis (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/ahlb...).

A new review is on our website: Lisa Ann Robertson reviews Mike Jays' Free Radicals: How a Group of Romantic Experimenters Gave Birth to Psychedelic Science (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/jay-...)

We have a new review on the BSLS website: Abraham Dayalu reviews Elfed Huw Price's William Lawrence and the Organ of Mind: The Theology, Medicine and Politics of the Brain (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/pric...)

We have a new review on the BSLS website: Dong Xia reviews Conor Heffernan, Emma Tonkin, Linda Flores Ohlson (eds), Zombies in Contemporary Culture: Journeys, Bodies, Pandemics and Politics (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/heff...).

We have a new review on the BSLS website: Dong Xia reviews Conor Heffernan, Emma Tonkin, Linda Flores Ohlson (eds), Zombies in Contemporary Culture: Journeys, Bodies, Pandemics and Politics (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/heff...).

We have a a new review on our website: Daniel Bowman reviews John MacNeill Miller's The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/macn...)

PhD opportunity – Recording nature and writing the self: time, entomology and the archive in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
More info: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/phd-...

The BSLS
Want to help keep the BSLS running smoothly? Ahead of the 2026 annual conference, we are seeking expressions of interest and nominations for two positions on the executive committee: Treasurer and Book Reviews Editor.

Interested? More info here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/bsls...

We have a new review on our website: Rhonda Mayne reviews Patrick Armstrong's Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction: Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/arms...).

Would anyone like to review Mandy-Suzanne Wong's Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl (www.graywolfpress.org/books/daught...). Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com.

The Search for a Science of Verse, 1880 to the Present Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - The Search for a Science of Verse, 1880 to the Present

Who would like to review Christian R. Gelder's The Search for a Science of Verse, 1880 to the Present (www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...)? Get in touch at bslsreivews@gmail.com if so.

Science Fiction and the Modern World | Home The Emergence of a Genre in a Revolutionary Age

Would anyone like to review Anastasia Klimchynskaya's book, Science Fiction and the Modern World: The Emergence of a Genre in a Revolutionary Age (liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....)? Email bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.

William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795 | Anthem Press Explore more about this title.

Would anyone like to review Joseph Fletcher's book, William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795 (anthempress.com/books/willia...). Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.

We have a new review on our website. Encarnación Trinidad Barrantes reviews Hugh Epstein's book, Hardy, Conrad and the Senses (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/02/epst...).

IAS Book Launch: Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel: Tue 3rd March, 6pm (in person).

The IAS welcomes Niall Sreenan for the launch of his book Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel. Zola, Hardy, and Utopian Fiction.

More: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/02/ias-...

Call for Book Proposals: Secrecy in Literature and Culture (Edinburgh University Press)

Series Editors Simon Cooke and Natalie Ferris invite proposals for critical studies exploring the pivotal role of secrecy in literature and culture.

More info: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/02/call...

Making Science History – Penn Press The history of science from 1945 to 2020, told from the perspective of Arnold Thackray, a pioneering expert in the fieldIn this fascinating personal account ...

Is anyone keen to review Arnold Thackray's book Making Science History: A Personal Perspective from Alamogordo to AI (www.pennpress.org/978160618036...). Contact us at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.

Jane Colden's "Botanic Manuscript" – Penn Press A richly illustrated account of the life and work of Jane Colden, America’s first woman botanistJane Colden (1724–1760) was America’s first woman botan...

Would anyone like to review Jane Colden’s
Botanic Manuscript: The Legacy of America’s First Woman Botanist by Fenella Greig Heckscher (www.pennpress.org/978160618047...). Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.

Faye Lynch reviews Suman Gupta and Peter H. Tu, The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants: An Engineering-Humanities Conversation (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/02/gupt...)

Ellie Hibbert reviews Jessica Cox's book Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/02/cox-...)

We have another review on the BSLS website: Jessica Cox reviews Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/02/cox-...)

News & Events News, events, videos, podcasts and seminars from the School of Advanced Study (SAS).

Two grant schemes from the School of Advanced Study are now open for applications: Being Human Festival 2026 and the Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities’ new Collaboration and Innovation Grant. Go to sas.ac.uk/news-events/ for details on how to apply

Call for Contributions to edited collection - The Prosthetic Ocean: Technology, Culture, and Maritime Imagination.

More details here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/02/call...