Literature, Science, and Public Policy: From Darwin to Genomics

Jay Clayton

doi:10.1017/9781009263504

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Literature, Science, and Public Policy

From Darwin to Genomics

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Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: August 2023
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781009263504
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009263504
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: 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.

‘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

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From Darwin to Genomics

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Literature, Science, and Public Policy
pp i-ii

Literature, Science, and Public Policy - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-xviii

Acknowledgments
pp xix-xx

Part I - Literature and Science Policy
pp 1-30

Chapter 1 - A New Project for the Humanities
pp 3-30

Part II - Deep Time
pp 31-94

Chapter 2 - Victorian Chimeras
pp 35-53

Chapter 3 - Cain’s Legacy
pp 54-75

Chapter 4 - Evolution in the Tropics
pp 76-94

Part III - The Modern Synthesis
pp 95-144

Chapter 5 - The Modern Synthesis
pp 97-119

Chapter 6 - The Ridicule of Time
pp 120-144

Part IV - Genome Time
pp 145-197

Chapter 7 - Time Considered as a Helix of Infinite Possibilities
pp 147-162

Chapter 8 - Biodystopia
pp 163-181

Chapter 9 - Clones and Other Sorrows
pp 182-197

Conclusion
pp 198-203

Notes
pp 204-222

Works Cited
pp 223-243

Index
pp 244-254

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