Literature, Science, and Public Policy - From Darwin to Genomics

"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"--

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Foreword

Literature, Science, and Public Policy shows how literature can influence scientific controversies and shape policy concerning evolution, genetics, and genomics.

Product details

• Authors: Jay Clayton, Jay (Vanderbilt University Clayton, Clayton Jay
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2023
• EAN: 9781009263528
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0926352-8
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 21st Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Western Europe, The Americas, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Western Continental Europe, Literary studies: from c 2000