Gerry Canavan

Erica Fretwell

Priscilla Wald

Jennifer Rhee

Monique Allewaert

Rebecca Walsh

Britt Rusert

Neel Ahuja

Lindsey Andrews

Rebecca Evans

Nihad M. Farooq

Nicholas Gaskill

Patrick Jagoda

Erin Gentry Lamb

Matthew A. Taylor

Aarthi Vadde

"This handbook illustrates the evolution of literature and science, in collaboration and contestation, across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The essays it gathers question the charged rhetoric that pits science against the humanities while also demonstrating the ways in which the convergence of literary and scientific approaches strengthens cultural analyses of colonialism, race, sex, labor, state formation, and environmental destruction. The broad scope of this collection explores the shifting relations between literature and science that have shaped our own cultural moment, sometimes in ways that create a problematic hierarchy of knowledge and other times in ways that encourage fruitful interdisciplinary investigations, innovative modes of knowledge production, and politically charged calls for social justice. Across units focused on epistemologies, techniques and methods, ethics and politics, and forms and genres, the chapters address problems ranging across epidemiology and global health, genomics and biotechnology, environmental and energy sciences, behaviorism and psychology, physics, and computational and surveillance technologies. Chapter 19 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com."--

The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science

Erica Fretwell examines how psychophysics--a nineteenth-century scientific movement originating in Germany dedicated to the empirical study of sensory experience--became central to the process of creating human difference along the lines of race, gender, and ability in nineteenth-century America.

Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling

Sensory Experiments

Erica Fretwell

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