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Fictional Science and Genre: Ectogenesis and Parthenogenesis at Mid‐Century
Author(s) -
Stephanson Raymond
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal for eighteenth‐century studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.129
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1754-0208
pISSN - 1754-0194
DOI - 10.1111/1754-0208.12653
Subject(s) - parthenogenesis , literature , art , history , art history , biology , genetics , embryo
Little‐known literary treatments of the artificial creation of human life appear at mid‐century, two generations before Shelley's Frankenstein . These works reveal complex responses to new experiments in the life sciences, despite their satirical elements, and they also allow glimpses into early generic formations before the existence of a ‘science fiction'.
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