LEADER 03934nam 2200673 450 001 9910464671903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78316-018-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000093267 035 $a(EBL)1650121 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001212859 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11732660 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001212859 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11212217 035 $a(PQKB)11753629 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1650121 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1650121 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10847953 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL665846 035 $a(OCoLC)873141845 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000093267 100 $a20140328h20142014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aScientific Americans $ethe making of popular science and evolution in early-twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture /$fJohn Bruni 210 1$aCardiff :$cUniversity of Wales Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (258 p.) 225 0 $aIntersections in literature and science 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-34564-3 311 $a1-78316-017-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aII. 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 327 $aV. '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 330 $aThe book challenges narrow readings of evolution as 'social Darwinism' by looking at evolutionary theory through the interrelated perspectives of science, North American naturalist literature, and popular journalism. 410 0$aIntersections in literature and science. 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$vBio-bibliography 606 $aScience$zUnited States$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAuthors, American 615 0$aAmerican literature 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 676 $a810.90052 700 $aBruni$b John$0949602 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464671903321 996 $aScientific Americans$92146392 997 $aUNINA