How the Gene Got Its Groove

How the Gene Got Its GrooveTraces the rhetorical work of the gene in scientific and nonscientific discourse throughout the twentieth century. Against a backdrop of the history of the gene as a scientific and a cultural icon, How the Gene Got Its Groove examines how "genes" function as rhetorical objects. Returning to Wilhelm Johannsen's original argument for the term, Elizabeth Parthenia Shea maintains that the gene was, first and foremost, a rhetorical invention, designed to

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