...Kent A. Ono © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination . By Robert Markley. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. 456 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science...

...Andrea Stone Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830–1940 . By Nihad M. Farooq New York : New York Univ. Press . 2016 . xiv, 343 pp. Cloth, $89.00 ; paper, $30.00 . Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture...

...David M. Higgins Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation . By Chu Seo-Young . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . 2010 . 306 pp. $39.95 . The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction . By Csicsery-Ronay Istvan Jr. Middletown, CT...

.... 2004 Book Reviews Emerson’s Life in Science: The Culture of Truth. By Laura Dassow Walls. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2003. viii, 280 pp. $35.00. Understanding Emerson: ‘‘The American Scholar’’ and His Struggle for Self- Reliance. By Kenneth S. Sacks. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ...

...James Dawes Duke University 2004 James Fictional Feeling: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Dawes and the American Gothic An interest in the deep structure of aesthetic plea- sure and in the emotions that shake us when reading has in recent years come...

... never be a real, political opposition Anna Brickhouse, University of Colorado, Boulder Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology. By Michael A. Bryson. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2002. xvii, 228 pp...

... thanallthathasgonebefore.Skiptothem. Jeanne Campbell Reesman, University of Texas at San Antonio Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space. By De Witt Douglas Kilgore. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. 294 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95. Politics, Persuasion, and Pragmatism: A Rhetoric...

... to the authority of what she has in fact done, however, and I recommend this book very strongly to anyone interested in this form of writing. Robert Merrill, University of Nevada, Reno Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science. By Ronald R. Thomas. Cam- bridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 1999...

...Wai Chee Dimock; Priscilla Wald Duke University Press 2002 Wai Chee Preface Dimock Literature and Science: Cultural Forms, and Conceptual Exchanges Priscilla Wald In his Rede Lecture of 1959, the English scientist and novelist C. P. Snow...

... Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science. By Steven Meyer. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2001. xxiii, 450 pp. $55.00. Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Community...

.... Going by Contraries: Robert Frost’s Conflict with Science. By Robert Bernard Hass. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2002. xiii, 220 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $16.50. It is hard to tell whether...

...Dana Seitler Duke University Press 2001 Dana Seitler Down on All Fours: Atavistic Perversions and the Science of Desire from Frank Norris to Djuna Barnes [T]here is truly a brute brain within the man’s, and when the latter...

...Caroline Reitz Duke University Press 2007 A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought . By Stephen Kern. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2004. 584 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $22.95. Paradigms of Paranoia: The Culture of Conspiracy...

...Erin A. Smith Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination . By Freedman Linda . New York : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2011 . x, 210 pp . $90.00 . Uncertain Chances: Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By Lee Maurice S. . New York...

... : Continuum . 2011 . iii , 178 pp. Cloth , $90.00 ; paper , $21.95 ; e-book , $15.99 . Race in American Science Fiction . By Isiah Lavender III. Bloomington : Indiana Univ. Press . 2011 . iii , 269 pp. Paper , $24.95 . © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Book Reviews Oriental...

... . By Russell Emily . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2011 . 253 pp. $44.95 . Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology . By Colatrella Carol . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2011 . 246 pp. $46.95 . © 2013 by Duke University Press...

...James Dawes Quirks of the Quantum: Postmodernism and Contemporary American Fiction . By Coale Samuel Chase . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2012 . x , 223 pp. Cloth , $55.00 ; paper , $24.50 . Getting inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about...

...Gerry Canavan Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom . By Scott Selisker . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2016 . 256 pp. Cloth, $91.00 ; paper, $26.00 ; e-book available. Editing the Soul: Science and Fiction in the Genome Age...

... War . By John Mac Kilgore . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2016 . xi, 284 pp. Paper, $ 32.95 . The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century . By Kyla Schuller . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2018 . xi, 282 pp. Cloth, $ 94.95...

...Gerry Canavan Abstract This article takes up science-fictional visions of the future against the “deep time” of the Anthropocene in order to explore the possibilities for utopia that remain in an era that only seems capable of producing necrofuturological dread. The piece surveys a wide range...