Scientific Americans

The Making of Popular Science and Evolution in Early-Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Other Sciences, Philosophy & Social Aspects
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Author: John Bruni ISBN: 9781783161355
Publisher: University of Wales Press Publication: March 15, 2014
Imprint: University of Wales Press Language: English
Author: John Bruni
ISBN: 9781783161355
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Publication: March 15, 2014
Imprint: University of Wales Press
Language: English

Demonstrating the timely relevance of Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Jack London and Henry Adams, this book shows how debates about evolution, identity, and a shifting world picture have uncanny parallels with the emerging global systems that shape our own lives. Tracing these systems’ take-off point in the early twentieth century through the lens of popular science journalism, John Bruni makes a valuable contribution to the study of how biopolitical control over life created boundaries among races, classes, genders and species. Rather than accept that these writers get their scientific ideas about evolution second-hand, filtered through a social Darwinist ideology, this study argues that they actively determine what evolution means. Furthermore, the book, examines the ecological concerns that naturalist narratives reflect—such as land and water use, waste management, and environmental pollution—previously unaddressed in a book-length study.

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Demonstrating the timely relevance of Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Jack London and Henry Adams, this book shows how debates about evolution, identity, and a shifting world picture have uncanny parallels with the emerging global systems that shape our own lives. Tracing these systems’ take-off point in the early twentieth century through the lens of popular science journalism, John Bruni makes a valuable contribution to the study of how biopolitical control over life created boundaries among races, classes, genders and species. Rather than accept that these writers get their scientific ideas about evolution second-hand, filtered through a social Darwinist ideology, this study argues that they actively determine what evolution means. Furthermore, the book, examines the ecological concerns that naturalist narratives reflect—such as land and water use, waste management, and environmental pollution—previously unaddressed in a book-length study.

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