Readings

Genetics in Literature


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English 243 - Spring 2004

Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University

 

Books

Students should order their books online. The book covers below contain links that will take you directly to each title at Amazon.com. Feel free to use other book outlets or order used copies.

 

 

Andrea Barrett
Ship Fever
(1996)

Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex (2002)

Aldous Huxley
Brave New World (1932)



Philip Kerr
A Philosophical Investigation (1992)

Simon Mawer
Mendel's Dwarf (1998)

Roger McDonald
Mr. Darwin's Shooter (1998)

Zadie Smith
White Teeth (2000)

James Watson
The Double Helix
(1968)

 

 

Additional reading (novels):

Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio (1999)
Octavia E. Butler, The Xenogenesis Trilogy (1987-89)
A. S. Byatt, Angels and Insects (1994)
Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve
Robin Cook, Chromosome 6 (1997)

Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain (1993) and Beggars and Choosers (1994)
Ira Levin, The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Adrian Mathews, Vienna Blood (1999)

Marge Piercy, He, She, and It (1991)
Richard Powers, The Gold Bug Variations (1991)
Bruce Sterling, Holy Fire (1996)
Fay Weldon, The Cloning of Joanna May (1990)

 


 

Films

 

Blade Runner
(1982; Director's Cut, 1992)
Ridley Scott, dir.

The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Franklin J. Schaffner, dir.

Internet Movie Database facts

Gattaca (1997)
Andrew Niccol, dir.

Inherit the Wind (1960)
Stanley Kramer, dir.

The Stepford Wives (1975)
Bryan Forbes, dir.

 

Additional viewing:

Creator, (1985) Ivan Passer, dir.
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), John Frankenheimer, dir.
Jurassic Park (1993), Steven Spielberg, dir.
Lebensborn (1997), David Stephens, dir.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Steven Spielberg, dir.
A Modern Affair (1996), Vern Oakley, dir.
Multiplicity (1996), Harold Ramis, dir.
Replicant (2001), Ringo Lam, dir.
The Sixth Day (2000), Roger Spottiswoode, dir.
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), George Lucas, dir.

 


Art


Tech Flesh: The Promise and Perils of the Human Genome Project
- An online digital art exhibit, curated by Timothy Murray of Cornell University as a special issue of the journal ctheory multimedia.

Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics - The website of a traveling exhibition that showcases artwork created in response to recent developments in human genomics. Organized by the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle) and curated by Robin Held, Gene(sis) can seen at the Frederick Weisman Museum of Art in Minneapolis (Jan. 25 – May 2, 2004 ) and The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL, (Sept. 10 – Nov. 28th, 2004).

 

Jay Clayton
Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt English