Palgrave Handbooks of Literature and Science
Series Editor
Howard Marchitello
Department of English, Rutgers UniversityCamden, Camden, NJ, USA
This series of handbooks is devoted to the study of the rich and complex history of the relationship between literature and science, from medieval times to the present moment. While this is a topic not unknown to literary criticism (especially in the middle years of the 20th century), the work assembled in these five volumes represents a fundamentally new approach to the vital story of the interconnectedness of literature and science, an approach that is grounded firmly upon an understanding of the status of both literature and science as discourses dedicated to the production of knowledge.
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Editors
Neel Ahuja , Monique Allewaert , Lindsey Andrews , Gerry Canavan , Rebecca Evans , Nihad M. Farooq , Erica Fretwell , Nicholas Gaskill , Patrick Jagoda , Erin Gentry Lamb , Jennifer Rhee , Britt Rusert , Matthew A. Taylor , Aarthi Vadde , Priscilla Wald and Rebecca Walsh
The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science
1st ed. 2020
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Editors
Neel Ahuja
University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Monique Allewaert
University of WisconsinMadison, Madison, WI, USA
Lindsey Andrews
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Gerry Canavan
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Rebecca Evans
Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, USA
Nihad M. Farooq
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Erica Fretwell
University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA
Nicholas Gaskill
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Patrick Jagoda
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Erin Gentry Lamb
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Jennifer Rhee
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
Britt Rusert
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
Matthew A. Taylor
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Aarthi Vadde
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Priscilla Wald
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Rebecca Walsh
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Palgrave Handbooks of Literature and Science
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We dedicate this work to the many whose lives have been adversely affected by the pandemic that has swept across the globe while this work came to fruition, revealing at every turn the inextricable links among science, politics, and society, the inequities of our global society, and the paramount importance of careful and critical acts of reading, responding, and caring for one another, in every field and in every encounter. We acknowledge both the hopeful role and the limits of knowledge communities as we move into a future in a world that gives privileged voice and access to some, while denying the very right to breathe for a great many more.
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Ben Doyle and Howard Marchitello for their eager and open-minded support of having a collective edit this volume as well as for their encouragement and sage editorial counsel along with that of Shaun Vigil and Allie Troyanos. We are grateful for Rachel Jacobes excellent (and patient) editorial assistance as we edged across the finish line.
This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust [203109/Z/16/Z].
Praise for The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science
This is an eclectic collection in the very best of ways: wide-ranging in genre, method, and conceptualisation. Most valuably it reveals a democratising impulse that speaks directly to the contemporary politics of literature and science, illuminating the fields strength in bringing together scholars in a united effort of understanding.
Martin Willis, Professor of English, Cardiff University, UK, and Editor, Journal of Literature and Science
This superb collection finally puts to rest the myth of the two cultures by comprehensively showing how, over 120 years of accelerating transformations, literature and science have become inseparable. The volume will be at the forefront of debates about the interconnectivity of twentieth and twenty-first century thought, culture, and practice.
Martin Halliwell, Head of the School of Arts and Professor of American Studies, University of Leicester, UK, and author of American Health Crisis: 100 Years of Panic, Planning and Politics (forthcoming)
This exciting collection is an excellent contribution to the field of literature and science. It is ideally suited for class adoption for courses in this and related areas such as science and technology studies, literature and medicine, and literature and technology. The section on Ethics and Politics is an especially welcome exploration of the issues that the editors bring up in their introduction, wherein the positionality of ones own discipline and institutional setting is, far from being ignored in the analysis, very much included as a part of it. Highly recommended for humanities scholars and others interested in interdisciplinary methodologies and inquires.