03934nam 2200673 450 991046467190332120200520144314.01-78316-018-7(CKB)3710000000093267(EBL)1650121(SSID)ssj0001212859(PQKBManifestationID)11732660(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001212859(PQKBWorkID)11212217(PQKB)11753629(MiAaPQ)EBC1650121(Au-PeEL)EBL1650121(CaPaEBR)ebr10847953(CaONFJC)MIL665846(OCoLC)873141845(EXLCZ)99371000000009326720140328h20142014 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrScientific Americans the making of popular science and evolution in early-twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture /John BruniCardiff :University of Wales Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (258 p.)Intersections in literature and scienceDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-34564-3 1-78316-017-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 frontierII. 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 paranoiaV. '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 CoverThe 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.Intersections in literature and science.American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAuthors, American20th centuryBiographyAmerican literature20th centuryBio-bibliographyScienceUnited StatesHistoryElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Authors, AmericanAmerican literatureScienceHistory.810.90052Bruni John949602MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464671903321Scientific Americans2146392UNINA