Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

Human and Temporal Connectivities

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Hoydis, JuliaHrsg.Engelhardt, NinaHrsg.

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This collection of essays explores current thematic and aesthetic directions in fictional science narratives in different genres, predominantly novels, but also poetry, film, and drama. The ten case studies, covering a range of British and American texts from the late twentieth to the twenty-first centuries, reflect the diversity of representations of science in contemporary fiction, including psychopharmacology and neuropathology, quantum physics and mathematics, biotechnology, genetics, and chemical weaponry. This collection considers how texts engage with science and technology to explore relations between bodies and minds, how such connectivities shape conceptions and narrations of the human, and how the speculative view of science fiction features alongside realist engagements with the Victorian period and modernism. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, contributors offer new insights into narrative engagement with science and its place in life today, in times past, and intimes to come.

Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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ISBN/GTIN978-3-030-19492-5

ProduktartBuch

EinbandKartoniert, Paperback

Verlag

Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsdatum14.08.2020

Auflage1st ed. 2019

ReihePalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

Seiten232 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 148 mm, Höhe 210 mm, Dicke 13 mm

Gewicht306 g

Artikel-Nr.9053551

KatalogBuchzentrum

Datenquelle-Nr.34609766

KategorieGeisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik

SachgebietSprachwissenschaft und Literaturwissenschaft

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Thomas De Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious

Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery

Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Second Sight in the Nineteenth Century

John Keats and the Medical Imagination

Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern

Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840

Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture

Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture

Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas

Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern

John Keats and the Medical Imagination

Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

Contemporary Fiction and Science from Amis to McEwan

Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Physical Sciences

Women, Science and Fiction Revisited

Human Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850-1895

Mental Health Symptoms in Literature since Modernism

Narratives of Women¿s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction

Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare¿s The Winter¿s Tale

Life, Death, and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century

Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction

Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry

Genetics and the Novel

William Blake's Visions

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Hoydis, JuliaHrsg.Engelhardt, NinaHrsg.

Nina Engelhardt is Assistant Professor at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. She is author of Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics (2018) and has co-edited several special issues, including Doing Science: Texts, Patterns, Practices (2017) and Above. Degrees of Elevation (2020). She has previously held research and teaching positions at the University of Edinburgh, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Edinburgh) and the University of Cologne.

Julia Hoydis is Assistant Professor at the University of Cologne, Germany. She is author of Tackling the Morality of History: Ethics and Storytelling in the Works of Amitav Ghosh (2011). Co-edited volumes and special issues include 21 st Century Studies (2015), Doing Science: Texts, Patterns, Practices (2017), and Teaching the Posthuman (2019). Her second monograph, Risk and the English Novel From Defoe to McEwan, is forthcoming (2019).