REVIEWS OF Natural Magic

 

Banville, John. “Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science by Renée Bergland – A Rich and Rewarding Study.” Irish Times, August 12, 2024. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/08/12/natural-magic-emily-dickinson-charles-darwin-and-the-dawn-of-modern-science-by-renee-bergland-an-immensely-rich-and-rewarding-study/.

 

Fehrman, Craig. “Charles Darwin and Emily Dickinson, kindred spirits in art and science.” Boston Globe, June 3, 2024. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/03/opinion/emily-dickinson-charles-darwin-bergland/.

 

Grunes, Marissa. “Meeting as Wonderstruck Kin.” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 21, 2024. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/meeting-as-wonderstruck-kin/.

 

Irmscher, Christoph. “‘Natural Magic’ Review: Emily Dickinson’s Darwinian Inspiration.” Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2024. https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/natural-magic-review-emily-dickinsons-darwinian-inspiration-c92fc802?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink.

 

Kirkus Reviews. “Bergland, Renee: NATURAL MAGIC.” Kirkus Reviews, 2024. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/renee-bergland/natural-magic-dickinson-darwin/.

 

Mondello, Kaitlin. “Darwin Meets Dickinson. Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science Renée Bergland Princeton University Press, 2024. 440 Pp.” Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), vol. 384, no. 6695, 2024, pp. 516–516, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adi5391.

 

New Yorker. “Briefly Mentioned: Natural Magic, by Renée Bergland.” The New Yorker, May 27, 2024, p. 65. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/27/natural-magic-traces-of-enayat-whale-fall-and-cinema-love.

 

Thomas, Sally. “Emily Dickinson’s Known World.” The National Review, July 25, 2024. https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2024/09/emily-dickinsons-known-world/

 

 

REVIEWS OF Philosophies of Sex

 

Barrett, Heather L. “Philosophies of Sex: Critical Essays on The Hermaphrodite Edited by Renée Bergland and Gary Williams (Review).” Legacy (Amherst, Mass.), vol. 31, no. 1, 2014, pp. 136–38.

 

McCall, Laura. “Philosophies of Sex: Critical Essays on The Hermaphrodite.” The Journal of American History, vol. 101, no. 1, Organization of American Historians, 2014, pp. 223–24, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau269.

 

 

REVIEWS OF Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science

 

Massachusetts Book Award Finalist, 2009. https://www.librarything.com/award/1203.202/Massachusetts-Book-Award-Must-Read-Longlist

 

Applegate, Debby. “Star struck: Nantucket astronomer Maria Mitchell, a pioneer in her field, still couldn't break through the overhead ceiling.” The Boston Globe, April 13, 2008, C-5.

 

Dales, Joanna. “Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer among the American Romantics.” Quaker Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, Liverpool University Press, 2010, p. 112.

 

Dobson, Andrea K. “Among the Stars: The Life of Maria Mitchell and Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer among the American Romantics.” Physics Today, vol. 61, no. 9, 2008, pp. 65–66, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2982125.

 

Hemenway, M. K. “Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer among the American Romantics.” CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, vol. 46, no. 1, American Library Association CHOICE, 2008, p. 120. *** Highly Recommended.

 

Holmes, Richard. “Maria Mitchell at 200.” Nature (London), vol. 558, no. 7710, 2018, pp. 370–71, https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05458-6.

 

Homestead, Melissa J. “Kate Field: The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-Century American Journalist; Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer among the American Romantics.” American Literature, vol. 81, no. 2, Duke University Press, 2009, pp. 392–94, https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-009.

 

Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich. “Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer among the American Romantics.” American Historical Review, vol. 114, no. 3, University of Chicago Press, 2009, pp. 757–58, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.114.3.757.

 

Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory. “Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer among the American Romantics.” The New England Quarterly, vol. 81, no. 4, The MIT Press, 2008, pp. 738–40, https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq.2008.81.4.738.

 

Mighty Girl. “Maria Mitchell, The First American Scientist to Discover a Comet, Fought for Pay Equality for Women.” A Mighty Girl, August 1, 2023. https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=25283

 

Ochs, Kathleen. “Doing Science Differently.” The Women’s Review of Books, vol. 25, no. 6, Old City Publishing, Inc, 2008, pp. 21–22.

 

Ogilvie, M. “Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer among the American Romantics. By Renee Bergland. (Boston: Beacon, 2008. Xviii, 300 Pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8070-2142-2.).” Journal of American History, vol. 95, no. 4, The Organization of American Historians, 2009, pp. 1162–63, https://doi.org/10.2307/27694612.

 

Stemwedel, Janet D. “Ada Lovelace Day Review: Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science.” Scientific American, October 16, 2012, https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/doing-good-science/ada-lovelace-day-book-review-maria-mitchell-and-the-sexing-of-science/.

 

Yeager, Ashley. “Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer Among the American Romantics.” Science News, vol. 174, no. 5, Science News/Society for Science and the Public, 2008, p. 31.

 

 

Reviews of The National Uncanny

 

Andrews, Scott. “The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects.” American Literature, vol. 73, no. 1, Duke University Press, 2001, pp. 187–88, https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-1-187.

 

Kilpatrick, Jacquelyn. “The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects. By Renee L. Bergland. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2000. Xii, 199 Pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-87451-943-8. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-87451-944-6.).” The Journal of American History, vol. 88, no. 2, Organization of American Historians, 2001, pp. 635–36, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675134.

 

Lempert, K. E. “The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects.” Library Journal, vol. 125, no. 2, 2000, p. 84.

 

Sax, Richard. “The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects.” Criticism, vol. 44, no. 1, Wayne State University Press, 2002, pp. 96–99, https://doi.org/10.1353/crt.2002.0011.

 

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. “The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 58, no. 3, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2001, pp. 745–48, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674310.

 

Sweet, Timothy. “Bergland, Renée L. The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects.” American Literary History, vol. 13, no. 3, 2001, p. 592.