Readings

Genetics in Literature


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English 273 - Fall 2000

Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University

 

Books

Students should order their books online from Amazon.Com (or other source). The book covers below contain links that will take you directly to each title at Amazon.com.

 

 

Andrea Barrett
Ship Fever
(1996)



Greg Bear
Darwin's Radio (1999)

Aldous Huxley
Brave New World (1932)



Philip Kerr
A Philosophical Investigation (1992)

Roger McDonald, Mr. Darwin's Shooter (1998)

Martha C. Nussbaum and
Cass R. Sunstein, eds.
Clones and Clones (1998)

Richard Powers
The Gold Bug Variations (1991)

 

Mary Shelley, Paul J. Hunter (Ed.), Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Norton)

James Watson
The Double Helix
(1968)

 

Additional reading (novels):

Octavia E. Butler, The Xenogenesis Trilogy (1987-89)
A. S. Byatt, Angels and Insects (1994)
Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain (1993) and Beggars and Choosers (1994)
Marge Piercy, He, She, and It (1991)
Bruce Sterling, Holy Fire (1996)
Fay Weldon, The Cloning of Joanna May

 


 

Films

 

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Blade Runner (1982)
Ridley Scott, dir.

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Gattaca (1997)
Andrew Niccol, dir.

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Jurassic Park (1993)
Steven Spielberg, dir.

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Inherit the Wind (1960)
Stanley Kramer, dir.

 

Additional viewing:


The Boys from Brazil (1978) Franklin J. Schaffner, dir.
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), John Frankenheimer
A Modern Affair (1996), Vern Oakley, dir.
Conceiving Ada (1997)Lynn Hershman-Leeson, dir
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Steven Spielberg, dir.
Lebensborn (1997), David Stephens, 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