TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hayden, Judy A.,
TI  - New science and women`s literary discourse: prefiguring Frankenstein 
SN  - 9780230110298
U1  - 820.936 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - English literature
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - Science in literature
KW  - Literature and science
KW  - History
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - 17th century
N1  - 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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