Lab Lit - Exploring Literary and Cultural Representations of Science

This book introduces and explores a new genre, lab lit. Essays both discuss lab lit novels using a variety of analytical approaches as well as provide a theoretical framework to explore the social and literary backgrounds of the genre.

List of contents

Preface, Olga A. Pilkington and Ace G. Pilkington

Introduction: What's in a Name?, Olga A. Pilkington

Chapter 1: Frankenstein, Scientism, and the Cultural Reception of Discovery, Amanda Scott

Chapter 2: Female Scientists Under Strain: Transitions From Lab To Lit To Screen, Dean Conrad and Lynne Magowan

Chapter 3: Lab Lit and Science Fiction: Similarities and Separations, Ace G. Pilkington

Chapter 4: Lab Lit and Popular Science, Olga A. Pilkington

Chapter 5: Where Science Meets Fiction: A History and Theory of Laboratory Production, Matt Hadley

Chapter 6: The Use of Forensic Techniques to Uncover Social Disorder in Caleb Carr's Alienist Novels, Kimberley H. Idol

Chapter 7: Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior: The Sciences in a Post-Fact World, Theda Wrede

Chapter 8: The Short Fiction of Andrea Barrett: Lab Lit as Sociology of Science, Stephanie Chidester

Chapter 9: The Honest Look at Science and Poetry, Elaine Pearce

Chapter 10: Addressing the Gender Gap in STEM through Theatre, Eileen Trauth and Suzanne Trauth

Chapter 11: Using Science in Writing Mystery Novels, Beverly Connor

Case Study: Lab Lit: Illuminating a Hidden World through the Medium of Fiction, Jennifer Rohn

ConclusionAbout the Contributors

About the author

Olga A. Pilkington is Assistant Professor of English at Dixie State University.Ace G. Pilkington was professor of English and history at Dixie State University.Ace G. Pilkington was professor of English and history at Dixie State University.Olga A. Pilkington is Assistant Professor of English at Dixie State University.

Product details

• Authors: Olga Pilkington Pilkington
• Assisted by: Ace G. Pilkington (Editor), Olga Pilkington (Editor), Pilkington Ace G. (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781498566001
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6600-1
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Science: general issues, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: from c 2000