Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan
- The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Shock Lit’
- 2 Moral Dilemmas
- 3 Science and Climate Crisis
- 4 The Novel of Ideas
- 5 Cold War Fictions
- 6 The Construction of Childhood
- 7 The Public and the Private
- 8 Masculinities
- 9 The Novellas
- 10 Realist Legacies
- 11 Limited Modernism
- 12 Narrative Artifice
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To…
3 - Science and Climate Crisis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 June 2019
- The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan
- The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Shock Lit’
- 2 Moral Dilemmas
- 3 Science and Climate Crisis
- 4 The Novel of Ideas
- 5 Cold War Fictions
- 6 The Construction of Childhood
- 7 The Public and the Private
- 8 Masculinities
- 9 The Novellas
- 10 Realist Legacies
- 11 Limited Modernism
- 12 Narrative Artifice
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To…
Summary
This chapter explores the depiction of science and climate crisis in The Child in Time and Solar, with particular emphasis on the relationship between science and art. It shows how the novels depict art and science in conversation, resisting resolution in favour of one or the other. Central to this depiction is the relationship between science and gender in The Child in Time and the much critiqued representation of climate crisis science in Solar. The chapter reads the two novels in relation to each other and places them in the larger framework of McEwan’s interviews and writings on science, art and climate crisis.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan , pp. 45 - 59Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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