We are delighted to announce that this year’s essay prize, offered jointly by the JLS and the British Society for Literature and Science, has been won by Emilie Taylor-Brown of the University of Warwick for her essay ‘(Re)Constructing the Knights of Science: Parasitologists and Their Literary Imaginations’. The judges commented:

“This is an excellent essay which is well-researched, clearly argued, lively and informative. In attending to both the literary and cultural mythologizing of turn-of-the-century parasitology and its practitioners, it adds a fascinating dimension to literature and science scholarship. In particular the committee were impressed with the original archival research, thorough historicist analysis and continually engaging prose of the article. From the beginning it made a compelling case for parasitology’s significance and for the role that literary culture played in promoting this work. The essay illuminates, through a rich account, another example of the complex intertwining of literature and science in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain.”

The JLS extends its congratulations to Emilie on her excellent essay, which will be published in a forthcoming issue, and also our thanks to all the BSLS members who submitted essays to this competition, maintaining both the high standard and wide field set by last year’s entries.

May – June 2014

Most Downloaded Articles (all issues):
1. Rachel Crossland, ‘”Multitudinous and Minute”: Early Twentieth-Century Scientific, Literary and Psychological Representations of the Mass’ (Vol 6, No. 2)
2. Josie Gill, ‘Science and Fiction in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth’ (Vol 6, No. 2)
3. Leigh Wilson, ‘”there the facts are”: Andrew Lang, Facts and Fantasy’ (Vol 6, No. 2)

Most Downloaded Reviews (all issues):
1. Ben De Bruyn, Review of Jay Clayton’s “The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics and the Posthuman” (Vol 6, No. 2)
2. Lisa Coar, Review of Jessica Kuskey’s “Our Mutual Engine: The Economics of Victorian Thermodynamics” (Vol 6, No. 2)
3. Katharine Easterby, Review of C. R. Resetarits’s “Experiments in Sex, Science, Gender, and Genre: Hawthorne’s ‘Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment,’ ‘The Birthmark,’ and ‘Rappaccini’s Daughter’” (Vol 6, No. 2)

March – April 2014

Most Downloaded Articles (all issues):
1. Rachel Crossland, ‘”Multitudinous and Minute”: Early Twentieth-Century Scientific, Literary and Psychological Representations of the Mass’ (Vol 6, No. 2)
2. Ruth Murphy, ‘Darwin and 1860s Children’s Literature: Belief, Myth or Detritus’ (Vol 5, No. 2)
3. Josie Gill, ‘Science and Fiction in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth’ (Vol 6, No. 2)

Most Downloaded Reviews (all issues):
1. Martin Willis, Review of Ellen Burton Harrington’s ‘Nation, identity and the fascination with forensic science in Sherlock Holmes and CSI’ (Vol 1, No. 1)
2. Ben De Bruyn, Review of Jay Clayton’s “The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics and the Posthuman” (Vol 6, No. 2)
3. Ben Winyard, Review of Kay Young’s “’Wounded by Mystery’: Dickens and Attachment Theory” (Vol 6, No. 1)