Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Human and Temporal Connectivities

by Nina Engelhardt (editor)

1. Connectivities Between Literature and Science in the Twenty-First Century.- 2. The Rise of Psychopharmacological Fiction.- 3. Cognition, Technology, and the Network Paradigm in Scott Bakker's Neuropath and Dave Eggers's The Circle .- 4. New Science, New Quantum Physics as a Narrative Trope in Contemporary Fiction. - 5. Digital Technologies and Concrete Word, Algorithm, Body.- 6. Towards a Posthumanist Conceptualization of Biotechnology in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy and Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation .- 7. Genealogies of Historicising Contemporary Science in Simon Mawer's Mendel's Dwarf and A.S. Byatt's A Whistling Woman .- 8. The Lures and Limitations of the Natural Frances Hardinge's The Lie Tree .- 9. "It's for Fellows only!": On the Postcolonial Stance of Matthew Brown's Maths Film The Man Who Knew Infinity .- 10. Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and the Technologies of Modernism.- 11. Identity, Memory, and Technoscientific Limits, Edges, and Borders in The Forbidden Zone .

232 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2019