Under the Literary Microscope : Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel / edited by Sina Farzin, Susan M. Gaines, and Roslynn D. Haynes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Farzin, Sina, editor.

Gaines, Susan M., editor.

Haynes, Roslynn D. (Roslynn Doris), 1940- editor.

Series:

AnthropoScene.

AnthropoScene Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction--History and criticism.

Science fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"A collection of essays examining literary discussions of the role of science, focusing on the interactions between processes of knowledge formation and the socioeconomic and political spheres"

Science and society in recent fiction / Natalie Roxburgh and Jay Clayton -- From individual to collective knowledge production : a brief nonfiction history / Peter Weingart and Luiz María Hernández Nieto -- Between mad and mundane : mixed stereotypical and realistic portrayals of science in contemporary fiction media / Luiz María Hernández Nieto and Peter Weingart -- Scientists at risk / Roslynn D. Haynes and Raymond Haynes -- Speculative fiction and the significance of plausibility : dystopian science in the critical response to Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake / Anna Auguscik, Sina Farzin, Emanuel Herold, and Anton Kirchhofer -- When the scientist is a woman : novels and feminist science studies / Carol Colatrella -- Economization of science : insights from science novels / Uwe Schimank -- The science fiction of technological modernity : images of science in recent science fiction / Sherryl Vint -- Unruly creatures, obstinate things : bio-objects and scientific knowledge production in contemporary science fiction / Karin Hoepker and Antje Kley -- A fictional risk narrative and its potential for social resonance : reception of Barbara Kingsolver's Flight behavior in reviews and reading groups / Sonja Fücker, Anna Auguscik, Anton Kirchhofer, and Uwe Schimank.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction Science Under the Literary Microscope

Part 1 Background and Context

1 Science and Society in Recent Fiction

2 From Individual to Collective Knowledge Production: A Brief Nonfiction History

3 Between Mad and Mundane: Mixed Stereotypical and Realistic Portrayals of Science in Contemporary Fiction Media

Part 2 Embedded Science Societal Impacts on Scientific Work and Knowledge

4 Scientists at Risk

5 Speculative Fiction and the Significance of Plausibility: Dystopian Science in the Critical Response to Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake

6 When the Scientist Is a Woman: Novels and Feminist Science Studies

7 Economization of Science: Insights from Science Novels

Part 3 Cause and Effect? Science and Its Societal Outcomes

8 The Science Fiction of Technological Modernity: Images of Science in Recent Science Fiction

9 Unruly Creatures, Obstinate Things: Bio- Objects and Scientific Knowledge Production in Contemporary Science Fiction

10 A Fictional Risk Narrative and Its Potential for Social Resonance: Reception of Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior in Reviews and Reading Groups

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271090115

0271090111

OCLC:

1250070778