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This book introduces and explores a new genre, lab lit. Essays both discuss lab lit novels using a variety of analytical approaches as well as provide a theoretical framework to explore the social and literary backgrounds of the genre. Intro --...
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This book introduces and explores a new genre, lab lit. Essays both discuss lab lit novels using a variety of analytical approaches as well as provide a theoretical framework to explore the social and literary backgrounds of the genre. Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Frankenstein, Scientism, and the Cultural Reception of Discovery -- 2 Female Scientists Under Strain -- 3 Lab Lit and Science Fiction -- 4 Lab Lit and Popular Science -- 5 Where Science Meets Fiction -- 6 The Use of Forensic Techniques to Uncover Social Disorder in Caleb Carr's Alienist Novels -- 7 Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior -- 8 The Short Fiction of Andrea Barrett -- 9 The Honest Look at Science and Poetry -- 10 Addressing the Gender Gap in STEM through Theater -- 11 Using Science in Writing Mystery Novels -- 12 Lab Lit -- Conclusion: Lab Lit -- Index -- About the Contributors -- About the Editors.
