TY - BOOK AU - Farzin,Sina AU - Gaines,Susan M. AU - Haynes,Roslynn D. AU - TI - Under the literary microscope: science and society in the contemporary novel T2 - AnthropoScene: the SLSA book series SN - 9780271090115 AV - PN3352 .U534 2021 KW - Essays KW - Science fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Science in literature KW - Social aspects KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Science and society in recent fiction; Natalie Roxburgh and Jay Clayton --; From individual to collective knowledge production : a brief nonfiction history; Peter Weingart and Luiz María Hernández Nieto --; Between mad and mundane : mixed stereotypical and realistic portrayals of science in contemporary fiction media; Luiz María Hernández Nieto and Peter Weingart --; Scientists at risk; Roslynn D. Haynes and Raymond Haynes --; Speculative fiction and the significance of plausibility : dystopian science in the critical response to Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake; Anna Auguscik, Sina Farzin, Emanuel Herold, and Anton Kirchhofer --; When the scientist is a woman : novels and feminist science studies; Carol Colatrella --; Economization of science : insights from science novels; Uwe Schimank --; The science fiction of technological modernity : images of science in recent science fiction; Sherryl Vint --; Unruly creatures, obstinate things : bio-objects and scientific knowledge production in contemporary science fiction; Karin Hoepker and Antje Kley --; A fictional risk narrative and its potential for social resonance : reception of Barbara Kingsolver's Flight behavior in reviews and reading groups; Sonja Fücker, Anna Auguscik, Anton Kirchhofer, and Uwe Schimank; 2; b N2 - "A collection of essays examining literary discussions of the role of science, focusing on the interactions between processes of knowledge formation and the socioeconomic and political spheres"; Science and society in recent fiction UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2924191&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -