000 02097cam a2200277ua 4500
008 140212n nyu |||gr||||Z||||||eng
020 _a9780230110298
082 _a820.936
_bHAY
245 0 4 _aNew science and women`s literary discourse :
_bprefiguring Frankenstein /
_cedited by Judy A. Hayden.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bPalgrave Macmillan,
_c2011.
300 _axvi, 263 p. :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-254) and index.
505 _aIntroduction: 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.
650 _aEnglish literature.
_xWomen authors.
_xHistory and criticism.
650 _aEnglish literature
_xHistory and criticism.
_y18th century
650 _aEnglish literature
_xHistory and criticism.
_yEarly modern, 1500-1700
650 _aScience in literature.
650 _aLiterature and science
_xHistory
_y18th century.
_zGreat Britain
650 _aLiterature and science
_xHistory
_y17th century.
_zGreat Britain
700 _aHayden, Judy A.,
_eEditor.
856 _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1111/2010035425-b.html
856 _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1111/2010035425-d.html
856 _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1111/2010035425-t.html
942 _cBK
999 _c22248
_d22248