03295nam a22004935i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001400153072001700167072002300184072001600207100008000223245011000303250001800413264007900431300003500510336002600545337002600571338003600597347002400633490006900657505049200726520105601218650003802274650003802312650001802350650002202368650003102390650002902421650001802450650002402468650002602492710003402518773002602552776003602578776003602614776003602650830006902686856004602755978-3-031-53100-2DE-He21320251030111718.0cr nn 008mamaa240313s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315310027 a10.1007/978-3-031-53100-22doi 4aPN695-779 7aDSBH2bicssc 7aLIT0240002bisacsh 7aDSBH2thema1 aHamann-Rose, Paul.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aGenetics and the Novelh[electronic resource] :bReimagining Life Through Fiction /cby Paul Hamann-Rose.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aVIII, 243 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,x2634-64430 a1. Introduction: Books of Life in the Long Century of the Gene -- 2. Simon Mawer’s Book of Life: Mendel’s Dwarf as Fictional Genetic Life Writing -- 3. There is grandeur in this view of life...or is there? Ian McEwan’s Poetics of Chance and the Unreliable Structures of Genetic Determinism -- 4. Genetics’ Perilous Analogies: Metaphors of Life in A. S. Byatt’s Quartet -- 5. Ecologies of Life: Genetics in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy -- 6. Conclusion: Levels of Life.  aGenetics 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. Paul Hamann-Rose is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Passau, Germany. 0aLiterature, Modernx20th century. 0aLiterature, Modernx21st century. 0aEcocriticism. 0aSciencexHistory. 0aCommunication in medicine.14aContemporary Literature.24aEcocriticism.24aHistory of Science.24aHealth Communication.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303153099908iPrinted edition:z978303153101908iPrinted edition:z9783031531026 0aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,x2634-644340uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53100-2