Scientific Americans : the making of popular science and evolution in early-twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture / / John Bruni
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| Autore: |
Bruni John
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| Titolo: |
Scientific Americans : the making of popular science and evolution in early-twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture / / John Bruni
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| Pubblicazione: | Cardiff : , : University of Wales Press, , [2014] |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.90052 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
| Authors, American - 20th century | |
| American literature - 20th century | |
| Science - United States - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Scientific Americans |
| ISBN: | 1-78316-018-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808021803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Intersections in literature and science.