03705nam a22005775i 4500 978-3-031-53100-2 DE-He213 20251030111718.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240313s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031531002 978-3-031-53100-2 10.1007/978-3-031-53100-2 doi PN695-779 DSBH bicssc LIT024000 bisacsh DSBH thema Hamann-Rose, Paul. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 72932 Genetics and the Novel [electronic resource] : Reimagining Life Through Fiction / by Paul Hamann-Rose. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. VIII, 243 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, 2634-6443 1. 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. 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. Paul Hamann-Rose is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Passau, Germany. Literature, Modern 20th century. Literature, Modern 21st century. 66700 Ecocriticism. 44023 Science History. 65232 Communication in medicine. 63864 Contemporary Literature. 66702 Ecocriticism. 44023 History of Science. 66101 Health Communication. 62524 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031530999 Printed edition: 9783031531019 Printed edition: 9783031531026 Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, 2634-6443 66328 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53100-2 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 58289 58289