Overview
- Brings together the philosophy and history of biology with theoretical insights from posthumanism and ecocriticism
- Showcases the novel as a form uniquely positioned to engage with challenges raised by genetic science
- Looks at how genetic fiction demonstrates that life itself has been reimagined
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine (PLSM)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (6 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction argues that literary fiction has reimagined life in the age of genetics. The new genetic paradigm has proposed to rewrite core assumptions about such fundamental aspects of life as the nature of kinship and biological connection, human-environmental relations, or the link between biology and art. Investigating major texts of genetic fiction by A. S. Byatt, Ian McEwan, Simon Mawer and Margaret Atwood, this monograph offers the first systematic study of how these assumptions about life itself have been renegotiated through the contemporary novel’s engagement with genetic science. This book identifies a significant new phase in the novel’s aesthetic exploration of life and demonstrates that the novel emerges as the cultural form uniquely positioned to engage both the imaginative and concrete challenges raised by genetic science for the lifeworlds of the new millennium.
Reviews
—Clare Hanson, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Southampton
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Paul Hamann-Rose is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Passau, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Genetics and the Novel
Book Subtitle: Reimagining Life Through Fiction
Authors: Paul Hamann-Rose
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53100-2
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 license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53099-9Published: 14 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53102-6Due: 14 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-53100-2Published: 13 March 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-6435
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6443
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 243
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Literary Theory, History of Science, Media and Communication