"Science in fiction, " "geek novels, " "lab-lit"—whatever one calls them, a new generation of science novels has opened a space in which the reading public can experience and think about the powers of science to illuminate nature as well as to generate and mitigate social change and risks. Under the Literary Microscope examines the implications of the discourse taking place in and around this creative space.

Exploring works by authors as disparate as Barbara Kingsolver, Richard Powers, Ian McEwan, Ann Patchett, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Crichton, these essays address the economization of scientific institutions; ethics, risk, and gender disparity in scientific work; the reshaping of old stereotypes of scientists; science in an evolving sci-fi genre; and reader reception and potential contributions of the novels to public understandings of science.

Under the Literary Microscope illuminates the new ways in which fiction has been grappling with scientific issues—from climate change and pandemics to artificial intelligence and genomics—and makes a valuable addition to both contemporary literature and science studies courses.

In addition to the editors, the contributors include Anna Auguscik, Jay Clayton, Carol Colatrella, Sonja Fücker, Raymond Haynes, Luz María Hernández Nieto, Emanuel Herold, Karin Hoepker, Anton Kirchhofer, Antje Kley, Natalie Roxburgh, Uwe Schimank, Sherryl Vint, and Peter Weingart.

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Information

Publisher

Penn State University Press

Year

2021

ISBN

9780271090139

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Modern Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

COVER Front
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Science and Society in Recent Fiction
Chapter 2: From Individual to Collective Knowledge Production A Brief Nonfi ction History
Chapter 3: Between Mad and Mundane Mixed Stereotypical and Realistic Portrayals of Science in Contemporary Fiction Media
Chapter 4: Scientists at Risk
Chapter 5: Speculative Fiction and the Signifi cance of Plausibility Dystopian Science in the Critical Responseto Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
Chapter 6: When the Scientist Is a Woman Novels and Feminist Science Studies
Chapter 7: Economization of Science Insights from Science Novels
Chapter 8: The Science Fiction of Technological Modernity Images of Science in Recent Science Fiction
Chapter 9: Unruly Creatures, Obstinate Things Bio-Objects and Scientific Knowledge Production in Contemporary Science Fiction
Chapter 10: A Fictional Risk Narrative and Its Potential for Social Resonance Reception of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior in Reviews and Reading Groups
Index