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- Focuses on contemporary literature and science, posthumanism, and literature and ethics
- Contributes interdisciplinary perspectives to the study of epistemology
- Examines topics including realism, nostalgia, and narrative
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine (PLSM)
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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.
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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 “21st 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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction
Book Subtitle: Human and Temporal Connectivities
Editors: Nina Engelhardt, Julia Hoydis
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19490-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19489-5Published: 10 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19492-5Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19490-1Published: 28 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6435
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6443
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 217
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Literature and Technology/Media, Fiction