The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science / edited by Neel Ahuja, Monique Allewaert, Lindsey Andrews, Gerry Canavan, Rebecca Evans, Nihad M. Farooq, Erica Fretwell, Nicholas Gaskill, Patrick Jagoda, Erin Gentry Lamb, Jennifer Rhee, Britt Rusert, Matthew A. Taylor, Aarthi Vadde, Priscilla Wald, Rebecca Walsh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahuja, Neel, 1980- editor.

Series:

Palgrave Handbooks of Literature and Science, 2946-5362

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--21st century.

Fiction.

Poetry.

Science--Social aspects.

Science.

Contemporary Literature.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Fiction Literature.

Poetry and Poetics.

Science and Technology Studies.

Local Subjects:

Contemporary Literature.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Fiction Literature.

Poetry and Poetics.

Science and Technology Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed. 2020.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Summary:

This handbook illustrates the evolution of literature and science, in collaboration and contestation, across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The essays it gathers question the charged rhetoric that pits science against the humanities while also demonstrating the ways in which the convergence of literary and scientific approaches strengthens cultural analyses of colonialism, race, sex, labor, state formation, and environmental destruction. The broad scope of this collection explores the shifting relations between literature and science that have shaped our own cultural moment, sometimes in ways that create a problematic hierarchy of knowledge and other times in ways that encourage fruitful interdisciplinary investigations, innovative modes of knowledge production, and politically charged calls for social justice. Across units focused on epistemologies, techniques and methods, ethics and politics, and forms and genres, the chapters address problems ranging across epidemiology and global health, genomics and biotechnology, environmental and energy sciences, behaviorism and psychology, physics, and computational and surveillance technologies. Chapter 19 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. "Mediating the Moon: Ferdinand Kriwet's Apollo Mission", Kurt Beal

3. "Writing the Elements at the End of the World: Varlam Shalamov and Primo Levi", Anindita Banerjee

4. "The Aesthetic Textuality of Oil", Brent Ryan Bellamy

5. "Literature and Energy", Jordan B. Kinder and Imre Szeman

6. "Triangulate: Literature and the Sciences Mediated by Computing Machines", Yves Citton

7. "Behaviorism and Literary Culture", Scott Selisker

8. "I'm Dying To!: Biopolitics, Suicide Plots, and The Ecstasy of Withdrawal", Dana Seitler

9. Science, Literature, and the Work of the Imagination", Bishnupriya Ghosh

10. "Edith Wharton's Microscopist and the Science of Language", Emily Coit

11. "Reading Generously: Scientific Criticism, Scientific Charity, and the Matter of Evidence", Todd Carmody

12. "Literary Studies in a Transdisciplinary Research Project: Genetic Privacy and the Case of Henrietta Lacks", Jay Clayton and Claire Sisco King

13. "Incantatory Fictions and Golden Age Nostalgia: Futurist Practices in Contemporary Science Fiction", Rebecca Wilbanks

14. "Reading Science: SF and the Uses of Literature", Amy C. Chambers and Lisa Garforth

15. "Linguistic Relativity and Cryptographic Translation in Samuel Delany's Babel-17", Joseph Fitzpatrick

16. "Autopoiesis between Literature and Science: Maturana, Varela, Cervantes", Avery Slater

17. "Listening to Pandemics: Sonic Histories and the Biology of Emergence", Robert Peckham

18. To Feel an Equation: Physiological Aesthetics, Modern Physics, and the Poetry of Jay Wright", Steven Meyer

19. Max Ritvo's Precision Poetry", Lara Choksey

20. New Physics, New Faust: Faustian Bargains in Physics before the Atomic Bomb", Jenni G. Halpin

21. "The Matter of In-Vitro Meat: Speculative Genres of Future Life", Coleman Nye

22. "Bodies Made and Owned: Rewriting Life in Science and Fiction", Sherryl Vint

23. "The Sciences of Mind and Fictional Pharmaceuticals in White Noise and The Corrections", Natalie Roxburgh

24. "Eugenic Aesthetics: Literature as Evolutionary Instrument in the Early Twentieth Century", Kyla Schuller

25. "Angry Optimism: Climate Disaster and Restoration in Kim Stanley Robinson's Alternate Futures", Everett Hamner

26. "Oil and Energy Infrastructures in Science Fiction Short Stories", Chris Pak

27. "Biology at the Border of Area X: The Significance of Skin in JeffVanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy", Sofia Ahlberg

28. "Overlapping Agencies: The Collision of Cancer, Consumers, and Corporations in Richard Powers's Gain", Jeff Gonzalez

29. "'Golden Dust' in the Wind: Genetics, Contagion, and Early Twentieth-Century American Theatre", Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr

30. "The Art and Science of Form: Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Olson and F. O. Matthiessen at Mid-century", S.H. Daw

31. "Racial Science and the Neo-Victorian Novel", Josie Gill

32. "W.E.B. Du Bois's Neurological Modernity: I.Q., Afropessimism, Genre", Michael Collins

33. "Graphic Bombs: Scientific Knowledge and the Manhattan Project in Comic Books", Lindsay Michael Banco

34. "'The Path of Most Resistance': Surgeon X and the Graphic Estrangement of Antibiosis", Lorenzo Servitje

35. "The Automation of Affect: Robots and the Domestic Sphere in Sinophone Cinema", Nathaniel Isaacson

36. "Superman Holey Weenie and the Sick Man of Asia", Carlos Rojas

37. "Modeling Long Novels: Network Analysis and A Brief History of Seven Killings", Lindsay Thomas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index,

Includes index.

ISBN:

9783030482442

3030482448