New science and women`s literary discourse : prefiguring Frankenstein / edited by Judy A. Hayden.
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TextPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 263 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 9780230110298
- English literature. -- Women authors. -- History and criticism
- English literature -- History and criticism. -- 18th century
- English literature -- History and criticism. -- Early modern, 1500-1700
- Science in literature
- Literature and science -- History -- 18th century. -- Great Britain
- Literature and science -- History -- 17th century. -- Great Britain
- 820.936 HAY
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-254) and index.
Introduction: women, education and the margins of science / Judy A. Hayden -- Before Frankenstein / Sarah Hutton -- Hutchinson and the Lucretian body / Alvin Snider -- Cavendish, van Helmont, and the mad raging womb / Jacqueline Broad -- Conway: dis/ability, medicine and metaphysics / Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker -- Behn and the scientific self / Karen Bloom Gevirtz -- Astell and Cartesian scientia / Deborah Boyle -- Centlivre: joint-worms and jointures / Judy A. Hayden -- Du Châtelet and the rhetoric of science / Judith P. Zinsser -- The life of Burney`s clockwork characters / Julie Park -- Inchbald: Animal magnetism and medical quackery / Frederick L. Burwick -- Lee: the new science and female madness / Marjean D. Purinton -- Barbauld: embryo systems and unkindled suns / Dometa Wiegand -- Grant: gender, genre and cultural analysis / Pam Perkins.
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