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This article examines the representation of human genomics in the British historical novel of the 1990s. A form which meditates on the past and its relationship to the present, the historical novel readily lends itself to the exploration of genealogy, heredity and inheritance. Forwarding an understanding of human history, and particularly of family history, as a direct and causal function of the genes, the neo-Darwinian explanation of the genome popular in the 1990s similarly advanced its own teleological relationship between past and present. Reading Jenny Diski’s Monkey’s Uncle (1994), A S Byatt’s Babel Tower (1996) and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000), this essay argues that the historical novel provides a unique form with which to critique the deterministic view of heredity promoted by neo-Darwinism. Focusing on moments of textual anachronism, asynchronicity and repetition in these family sagas, it shows how—at its most transgressive—the historical novel imagines temporal disruptions that bring the present into contact with the past in ways that defamiliarise conventions of linearity, order and progress. Refusing the idea of human history as a single, legible line that underpins neo-Darwinian ideas of genetic inheritance, Diski, Byatt and Smith’s novels are able to interrogate both the temporal logics and cultural capital of 1990s genetic science. While the decade was shaped and defined by popular science speculation and large-scale genetic research projects, such as the Human Genome Project (1990–2003), the novels addressed in this essay ultimately suggest the lively and seductive genocentrism of the 1990s to be inadequate to the task of explaining the complexity and meaning of the lived genome. As Diski, Byatt and Smith’s novels anticipate, the question of the uses, meanings and value of the human genome sequence continue to be of relevance within our current, postgenomic era.

This thesis examines the influence of embodied accounts of the mind on literary representations of mental life in the contemporary novel. It identifies a new cohort of British and North-American authors who address the close relationship between mental experience and the physiological vicissitudes of the brain. Moving beyond critical accounts that view the intercourse between literature and science as symptomatic of a long-standing territorial dispute, this study draws attention to a broader range of literary responses to the mind sciences, and in doing so, demonstrates the significance of recent debates surrounding determinism and plasticity, mind and body, and self and society, that have emerged in the age of the brain. Reading these writers in the context of wider scientific, philosophical, and cultural narratives, this thesis offers new ways of understanding how the embodied mind and embrained body challenge traditional understandings of human knowledge, identity, and agency. Chapter 1 explores the influence of neo-Darwinian ideas about the brain on A. S. Byatt’s representations of language and memory. Chapter 2 follows by examining genetic determinism in the writings of Ian McEwan, where the close and causal relationship between genes and brains gives rise to a mechanistic portrayal of the human mind. Chapter 3 focusses on Richard Powers’ narrative account of consciousness, which fuses a cognitive capacity for storytelling with the evolutionary history of the brain. Drawing upon feminist and phenomenological theory, Chapter 4 investigates the association between neuroanatomy and gender politics in the work of Siri Hustvedt. Chapter 5 explores Sarah Hall’s interest in heightened forms of embodied experience that intuitively refuse the easy reduction of mental life to a series of brain states. Focussing on losses of bodily agency, this chapter examines how Hall probes the explanatory gap between the empirical vision of the sciences and experiential accounts of mind.

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