Literature, Science, and Public Policy - Jay Clayton

Literature, Science, and Public Policy

From Darwin to Genomics

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Buch | Hardcover
290 Seiten
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-26352-8 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
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.
Literature, Science, and Public Policy shows how literature can influence public policy concerning scientific controversies in genetics and other areas. Literature brings unique insights to issues involving cloning, GMOs, gene editing, and more by dramatizing their full human complexity. Literature's value for public policy is demonstrated by striking examples that range from the literary response to evolution in the Victorian era through the modern synthesis of evolution and genetics in the mid-twentieth century to present-day genomics. Outlining practical steps for humanists who want to help shape public policy, this book offers vivid readings of novels by H. G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, Aldous Huxley, Robert Heinlein, Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delany, David Mitchell, Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Gary Shteyngart, and others that illustrate the important insights that literary studies can bring to debates about science and society. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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.

Preface; Part I. Literature and Science Policy: 1. A new project for the humanities: Ian McEwan; Part II. Deep Time: 2. Victorian chimeras: H. G. Wells, Thomas H. Huxley; 3. Cain's legacy: the mark of Lamarck in late-Victorian fiction: Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Samuel Butler, H. Rider Haggard, Wilkie Collins; 4. Evolution in the tropics: neo-Victorian fictions: A. S. Byatt, Andrea Barrett, David Mitchell; Part III. The Modern Synthesis: 5. Genetics and dystopia in the Huxley circle: Aldous Huxley, J. B. S. Haldane, Julian Huxley; 6. The ridicule of time: science fiction and the posthuman: Robert A. Heinlein to Octavia Butler; Part IV. Genome Time: 7. Time considered as a helix of infinite possibilities: Samuel R. Delany; 8. Biodystopia: Gary Shteyngart, Philip Kerr, Margaret Atwood; 9. Clones and other sorrows: Kazuo Ishiguro; Conclusion.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 545 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-009-26352-8 / 1009263528
ISBN-13 978-1-009-26352-8 / 9781009263528
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