The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science

<p>1. Introduction.-&nbsp;2.&nbsp;“Mediating the Moon: Ferdinand Kriwet’s Apollo Mission”,&nbsp;Kurt Beal.-&nbsp;3.&nbsp;“Writing the Elements at the End of the World: Varlam Shalamov and Primo Levi”,&nbsp;Anindita Banerjee.-&nbsp;4.&nbsp;“The Aesthetic Textuality of Oil”,&nbsp;Brent Ryan Bellamy.-&nbsp;5.&nbsp;“Literature and Energy”,&nbsp;Jordan B. Kinder and Imre Szeman.-&nbsp;6.&nbsp;“Triangulate: Literature and the Sciences Mediated by Computing Machines”,&nbsp;Yves Citton.-&nbsp;7.&nbsp;“Behaviorism and Literary Culture”,&nbsp;Scott Selisker.-&nbsp;8.&nbsp;“I’m Dying To!: Biopolitics, Suicide Plots, and The Ecstasy of Withdrawal”,&nbsp;Dana Seitler.-&nbsp;9. Science, Literature, and the Work of the Imagination”,&nbsp;Bishnupriya Ghosh.-&nbsp;10.&nbsp;“Edith Wharton's Microscopist and the Science of Language”,&nbsp;Emily Coit.-&nbsp;11.&nbsp;“Reading Generously: Scientific Criticism, Scientific Charity, and the Matter of Evidence”,&nbsp;Todd Carmody.-&nbsp;12. “Literary Studies in a Transdisciplinary Research Project: Genetic Privacy and the Case of Henrietta Lacks”,&nbsp;Jay Clayton and Claire Sisco King.-&nbsp;13.&nbsp;“Incantatory Fictions and Golden Age Nostalgia: Futurist Practices in&nbsp;Contemporary Science Fiction”,&nbsp;Rebecca Wilbanks.-&nbsp;14.&nbsp;“Reading Science: SF and the Uses of Literature”,&nbsp;Amy C. Chambers and Lisa Garforth.-&nbsp;15.&nbsp;“Linguistic Relativity and Cryptographic Translation in Samuel&nbsp;Delany’s Babel-17”,&nbsp;Joseph Fitzpatrick.-&nbsp;16.&nbsp;“Autopoiesis between Literature and Science: Maturana, Varela, Cervantes”,&nbsp;Avery Slater.-&nbsp;17.&nbsp;“Listening to Pandemics: Sonic Histories and the Biology of Emergence”,&nbsp;Robert Peckham.-&nbsp;18.&nbsp;To Feel an Equation: Physiological Aesthetics, Modern Physics, and the Poetry of Jay Wright”,&nbsp;Steven Meyer.-&nbsp;19.&nbsp;Max Ritvo’s Precision Poetry”,&nbsp;Lara Choksey.-&nbsp;20.&nbsp;New Physics, New Faust: Faustian Bargains in Physics before the Atomic Bomb”,&nbsp;Jenni G. Halpin.-&nbsp;21.&nbsp;“The Matter of In-Vitro Meat: Speculative Genres of Future Life”, Coleman Nye.-&nbsp;22.&nbsp;“Bodies Made and Owned: Rewriting Life in Science and Fiction”, Sherryl Vint.-&nbsp;23.&nbsp;“The Sciences of Mind and Fictional Pharmaceuticals in White Noise and The&nbsp; Corrections”,&nbsp;Natalie Roxburgh.-&nbsp;24.&nbsp;“Eugenic Aesthetics: Literature as Evolutionary Instrument in the Early Twentieth Century”,&nbsp;Kyla Schuller.-&nbsp;25.&nbsp;“Angry Optimism: Climate Disaster and Restoration in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Alternate Futures”,&nbsp;Everett Hamner.-&nbsp;26.&nbsp;“Oil and Energy Infrastructures in Science Fiction Short Stories”,&nbsp;Chris Pak.-&nbsp;27.&nbsp;“Biology at the Border of Area X: The Significance of Skin in JeffVanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy”,&nbsp;Sofia Ahlberg.-&nbsp;28.&nbsp;“Overlapping Agencies: The Collision of Cancer, Consumers, and Corporations in Richard Powers’s Gain”,&nbsp;Jeff Gonzalez.-&nbsp;29. “‘Golden Dust’ in the Wind: Genetics, Contagion, and Early&nbsp;Twentieth-Century American Theatre”,&nbsp;Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr.-&nbsp;30. “The Art and Science of Form: Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Olson and F. O.&nbsp;Matthiessen at Mid-century”,&nbsp;S.H. Daw.-&nbsp;31.&nbsp;“Racial Science and the Neo-Victorian Novel”,&nbsp;Josie Gill.-&nbsp;32.&nbsp;“W.E.B. Du Bois’s Neurological Modernity: I.Q., Afropessimism, Genre”,&nbsp;Michael Collins.-&nbsp;&nbsp;33.&nbsp;“Graphic Bombs: Scientific Knowledge and the Manhattan Project in Comic Books”,&nbsp;Lindsay Michael Banco.-&nbsp;34.&nbsp;“‘The Path of Most Resistance’: Surgeon X and the Graphic Estrangement of Antibiosis”,&nbsp;Lorenzo Servitje.-&nbsp;35.&nbsp;“The Automation of Affect: Robots and the Domestic Sphere in Sinophone Cinema”,&nbsp;Nathaniel Isaacson.-&nbsp;36. “Superman Holey Weenie and the Sick Man of Asia”,&nbsp;Carlos Rojas.-&nbsp;37.&nbsp;“Modeling Long Novels: Network Analysis and A Brief History of Seven Killings”,&nbsp;Lindsay Thomas.</p><div><br></div>