Book ID: CBB000774594

Frankenstein's Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780--1830 (2008)

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Knellwolf, Christa (Editor)
Goodall, Jane R. (Editor)


Ashgate


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: x + 225 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Morus, Iwan Rhys (2009) Review of "Frankenstein's Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780--1830". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 422). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Knellwolf, Christa; Goodall, Jane (2008) Introduction. In: Frankenstein's Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780--1830 (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Fara, Patricia (2008) Educating Mary: Women and Scientific Literature in the Early Nineteenth Century. In: Frankenstein's Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780--1830 (p. 17). unapi

Chapter Barbour, Judith (2008) The Professor and the Orang-Outang: Mary Shelly as a Child Reader. In: Frankenstein's Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780--1830 (p. 33). unapi

Chapter Knellwolf, Christa (2008) Geographic Boundaries and Inner Space: Frankenstein, Scientific Explorations and the Quest for the Absolute. In: Frankenstein's Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780--1830 (p. 49). unapi

Chapter Guerrini, Anita (2008) Animal Experiments and Anitvivisection Debates in the 1820s. In: Frankenstein's Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780--1830 (p. 71). unapi

Chapter Cooper, Melinda (2008) Monstrous Progeny: The Teratological Tradition in Science and Literature. In: Frankenstein's Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780--1830 (p. 87). unapi

Chapter Kirkby, Joan (2008) Shadows of the Invisible World: Mesmer, Swedenborg and the Spiritualist Sciences. In: Frankenstein's Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780--1830 (p. 99). unapi

Chapter Goodall, Jane (2008) Electrical Romanticism. In: Frankenstein's Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780--1830 (p. 117). unapi

Chapter Hunter, Allan K. (2008) Evolution, Revolution and Frankenstein's Creature. In: Frankenstein's Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780--1830 (p. 133). unapi

Chapter Jackson, Ian (2008) Science as Spectacle: Electrical Showmanship in the English Enlightenment. In: Frankenstein's Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780--1830 (p. 151). unapi

Chapter Cheater, Christine (2008) Collectors of Nature's Curiosities; Science, Popular Culture and the Rise of Natural History Museums. In: Frankenstein's Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780--1830 (p. 167). unapi

Chapter Markley, Robert (2008) The Nightmare of Evolution: H. G. Wells, Percival Lowell and the Legacies of Frankenstein's Science. In: Frankenstein's Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780--1830 (p. 183). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Page, Michael R.
Bailes, Melissa
Anne Milne
Maria Enrica D'Agostini
Micheletti, Silvia
Brycchan Carey
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
ELH: English Literary History
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Publishers
CLUEB
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
William Morrow
W. W. Norton & Co.
University of Virginia Press
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Science and literature
Science and culture
Science fiction
Experiments and experimentation
Western world, civilization and culture
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
People
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Wells, Herbert George
Darwin, Erasmus
Jentsch, Ernst Anton
Mori, Masahiro
Smith, Charlotte
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
Early modern
21st century
Places
Great Britain
England
Netherlands
Greece
Germany
Europe
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