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Author:   Jay Clayton (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.545kg
ISBN:  

9781009263528

ISBN 10:   1009263528
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   17 August 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table 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.

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'Jay Clayton has provided a state-of-the-art toolkit for humanities scholars engaging with policy, but also for their Deans, PVCs, Vice-Chancellors, and funding bodies who support interdisciplinary research and outward-facing institutions. Clayton's expert knowledge of literary history and lifelong collaborations in science and technology will be of interest to anyone who wants informed opinion on literature and science, evolution, epigenetics, the modern synthesis, and genomics.' Regenia Gagnier, University of Exeter 'Both science itself and related policy rely implicitly on narratives embedded in time - narratives that both summarize the relevant actions of the past and forecast a version of the future. But neither policy advisers nor scientists tend to be particularly mindful of the essentials of storytelling …. This is what the American academic Jay Clayton seeks to change in his coherently argued book.' Pippa Goldschmidt, The Times Literary Supplement

'Jay Clayton has provided a state-of-the-art toolkit for humanities scholars engaging with policy, but also for their Deans, PVCs, Vice-Chancellors, and funding bodies who support interdisciplinary research and outward-facing institutions. Clayton's expert knowledge of literary history and lifelong collaborations in science and technology will be of interest to anyone who wants informed opinion on literature and science, evolution, epigenetics, the modern synthesis, and genomics.' Regenia Gagnier, University of Exeter

Author Information

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.

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