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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      03 August 2023
      17 August 2023
      ISBN:
      9781009263504
      9781009263528
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009263504
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      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.545kg, 274 Pages
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      Literature, Literary Theory, English Literature 1900-1945
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    Literature, Science, and Public Policy shows how literature can influence public policy concerning scientific controversies in genetics and other areas. Literature brings unique insights to issues involving cloning, GMOs, gene editing, and more by dramatizing their full human complexity. Literature's value for public policy is demonstrated by striking examples that range from the literary response to evolution in the Victorian era through the modern synthesis of evolution and genetics in the mid-twentieth century to present-day genomics. Outlining practical steps for humanists who want to help shape public policy, this book offers vivid readings of novels by H. G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, Aldous Huxley, Robert Heinlein, Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delany, David Mitchell, Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Gary Shteyngart, and others that illustrate the important insights that literary studies can bring to debates about science and society. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

    Reviews

    ‘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 Source: The Times Literary Supplement

    ‘This is a deeply generous and thoughtful book … the whole text is threaded with this commitment to the importance of writing and thinking about writing and, indeed, writing about writing.’

    Jerome de Groot Source: The British Society for Literature and Science

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    • Literature, Science, and Public Policy
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    • Literature, Science, and Public Policy - Title page
      pp iii-iii
    • From Darwin to Genomics
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    • Copyright page
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    • Dedication
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    • Contents
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    • Preface
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    • Acknowledgments
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    • Part I - Literature and Science Policy
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    • Chapter 1 - A New Project for the Humanities
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    • (Ian McEwan)
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    • Part II - Deep Time
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    • Chapter 2 - Victorian Chimeras
      pp 35-53
    • (H. G. Wells, Thomas H. Huxley)
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    • Part III - The Modern Synthesis
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    • Part IV - Genome Time
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    • Chapter 7 - Time Considered as a Helix of Infinite Possibilities
      pp 147-162
    • (Samuel R. Delany)
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    • Chapter 8 - Biodystopia
      pp 163-181
    • (Gary Shteyngart, Philip Kerr, Margaret Atwood)
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    • Chapter 9 - Clones and Other Sorrows
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    • (Kazuo Ishiguro)
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    • Conclusion
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    • Notes
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    • Works Cited
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    • Index
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