Scientific Americans the Making of Popular Science and Evolution in Early-Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture.
by
Bruni, John.
Title
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Scientific Americans the Making of Popular Science and Evolution in Early-Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture.
Author
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Bruni, John.
ISBN
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9781783160181
9781322345642
Personal Author
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Bruni, John.
Publication Information
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Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2014.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (258 pages).
Series
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Intersections in Literature and Science
Intersections in literature and science.
Contents
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Cover; ToC; List of illustrations; 1 Popular Science, Evolution and Global Information Management; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. Reconstructing the social and scientific; II. Scientific and cultural narratives of expansion; III. Information and control systems; IV. Historicizing science; 2 Dirty Naturalism and the Regime of Thermodynamic Self-Organization; I. Social regulation and the power of art; II. Self-organization and energy flows; III. Ecocriticism and thermodynamics; IV. Social work and moral parasites; 3 The Ecology of Empire; I. The Call of the Wild and the national frontier.
II. Wild Fang and the ideology of domesticationIII. The multiplicity of animal bodies; III. 'Constitutional restlessness' and 'something not ourselves'; IV. Ghosts of American citizens; V. Where to draw the line? Biological kinshipand legal discourse; 4 After the Flood: Performance and Nation; I. Managing life; II. Business morality and Western water policy; IV. Systems of art: perception and communication; V. Pure fiction; I. Evolution as historical process; II. Thermodynamics and citizenship; III. The new American as techno-subject; IV. Beyond evolution: information, control and paranoia.
V. 'The Rule of Phase Applied to History'VI. 'A Letter to American Teachers of History'; 5 The Miseducation of Henry Adams: Fantasies of Race, Citizenship and Biological Dynamos; Conclusion; I. Henry Adams: ecocritic?; II. 'Cyborg politics' and the technoscientific regime; III. The American System and global debt; IV. Biopolitics and posthuman life: the call of Jack London; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.
Abstract
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The book challenges narrow readings of evolution as 'social Darwinism' by looking at evolutionary theory through the interrelated perspectives of science, North American naturalist literature, and popular journalism.
Subject Term
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Science news -- United States.
American literature -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Science news. (OCoLC)fst01108748
SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Geographic Term
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre
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Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic Access
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Status |
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IYTE Library | E-Book | 529544-1001 | PS221 | Online |