Under the Literary Microscope : : Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel /

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

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“Science in fiction,” “geek novels,” “lab-lit”—whatever one calls them, a new generation of science novels has opened a space in which the reading public can experience and think about the powers of science to illuminate nature as well as to generate and mitigate social change and risks. Under the L...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
MitwirkendeR:
Auguscik, Anna,
Clayton, Jay,
Colatrella, Carol,
Farzin, Sina,
Fücker, Sonja,
Gaines, Susan M.,
Haynes, Raymond,
Haynes, Roslynn D.,
Herold, Emanuel,
Hoepker, Karin,
Kirchhofer, Anton,
Kley, Antje,
Nieto, Luz María Hernández,
Roxburgh, Natalie,
Schimank, Uwe,
Vint, Sherryl,
Weinga, Peter,
Weingart, Peter,
HerausgeberIn:
Farzin, Sina,
Gaines, Susan M.,
Haynes, Roslynn D.,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series ; 7
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Physical Description:1 online resource (270 p.)
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Table of 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

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