This is the first book to explore the dramatic impact of genetics on literary fiction over the past four decades. After James Watson and Francis Crick's discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 and the subsequent cracking of the genetic code, a gene-centric discourse developed …
This is the first book to explore the dramatic impact of genetics on literary fiction over the past four decades. After James Watson and Francis Crick's discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 and the subsequent cracking of the genetic code, a gene-centric discourse developed …
Studying works by Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan, A.S. Byatt, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Jackie Kay, this book explores the impact on literature of the gene-centric model of human nature that entered mainstream culture in the wake of the discovery of the structure of DNA.
Katherine Mansfield and psychology
by Kimber, Gerri, Hanson, Clare, Martin, W. Todd
fromKatherine Mansfield studies
This volume explores the multiple ways in which Mansfield's fiction resonates with the landscapes opened up by both psychology and psychoanalysis. In line with the recent surge of critical interest in early psychology, the contributors read Mansfield's work alongside figures lik…
Katherine Mansfield and psychology
by Kimber, Gerri, Hanson, Clare, Martin, W. Todd
fromKatherine Mansfield studies