Literature, science and public policy : from Darwin to genomics / Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clayton, Jay, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction, English--History and criticism.

Science fiction, English.

Science fiction, American--History and criticism.

Science fiction, American.

Literature and science.

Science in literature.

Genetic engineering in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xx, 253 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2023]

Biography/History:

Jay Clayton is William R. Kenan Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Author of numerous books and articles on topics ranging from Victorian literature to digital media, he is the recipient of the Suzanne M. Glasscock Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship.

Summary:

"This book shows how literature can influence scientific controversies concerning genetic engineering, cloning, GMOs, and more by dramatizing these issues' human complexity. Literature's value for public policy is demonstrated by examples from the Victorian response to evolution through the Modern Synthesis of genetics to present-day genomics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Literature and science policy. A new project for the humanities : Ian McEwan

Deep time. Victorian chimeras : H. G. Wells, Thomas H. Huxley

Cain's legacy : the mark of Lamarck in late-Victorian fiction : Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Samuel Butler, H. Rider Haggard, Wilkie Collins

Evolution in the tropics : neo-Victorian fictions : A. S. Byatt, Andrea Barrett, David Mitchell

The modern synthesis. The modern synthesis : genetics and dystopia in the Huxley circle : Aldous Huxley, J. B. S. Haldane, Julian Huxley

The ridicule of time : science fiction and the posthuman : Robert A. Heinlein to Octavia Butler

Genome time. Time considered as a helix of infinite possibilities : Samuel R. Delany

Biodystopia : Gary Shteyngart, Philip Kerr, Margaret Atwood

Clones and other sorrows : Kazuo Ishiguro

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-243) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Clayton, Jay, 1951- Literature, science, and public policy.

ISBN:

9781009263528

1009263528

9781009263511

100926351X

OCLC:

1351935225