Book ID: CBB001033501

The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein (2011)

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Hayden, Judy A. (Editor)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: xvi + 263 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review DiMeo, Michelle (2012) Review of "The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein". Journal of British Studies (p. 1013). unapi

Review Sheffield, Suzanne Le-May (2012) Review of "The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 178). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Wiegand, Dometa (2011) Barbauld: “Embryo Systems and Unkindled Suns”. In: The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein (p. 201). unapi

Chapter Perkins, Pam (2011) Grant: Gender, Genre, and Cultural Analysis. In: The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein (p. 219). unapi

Chapter Gevirtz, Karen Bloom (2011) Behn and the Scientific Self. In: The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein (p. 85). unapi

Chapter Boyle, Deborah (2011) Astell and Cartesian “Scientia. In: The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein (p. 99). unapi

Chapter Hayden, Judy A. (2011) Centlivre: Joint-Worms and Jointures. In: The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein (p. 113). unapi

Chapter Zinsser, Judith P. (2011) Du Châtelet and the Rhetoric of Science. In: The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein (p. 133). unapi

Chapter Park, Julie (2011) The Life of Burney's Clockwork Characters. In: The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein (p. 147). unapi

Chapter Burwick, Frederick L. (2011) Inchbald: Animal Magnetism and Medical Quackery. In: The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein (p. 165). unapi

Chapter Purinton, Marjean D. (2011) Lee: The New Science and Female Madness. In: The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein (p. 183). unapi

Chapter Hayden, Judy A. (2011) Introduction: Women, Education and the Margins of Science. In: The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Hutton, Sarah (2011) Before Frankenstein. In: The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein (p. 17). unapi

Chapter Snider, Alvin (2011) Hutchinson and the Lucretian Body. In: The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein (p. 29). unapi

Chapter Broad, Jacqueline (2011) Cavendish, van Helmont, and the Mad Raging Womb. In: The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein (p. 47). unapi

Chapter Nelson, Holly Faith; Alker, Sharon (2011) Conway: Dis/ability, Medicine, and Metaphysics. In: The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein (p. 65). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Bailes, Melissa
Gorman, Cassandra
Sabrina Ebbersmeyer
Spratt, Danielle L.
Wallwork, Jo
Sills, Adam Gregory
Journals
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
History of European Ideas
Publishers
Johns Hopkins University Press
Ashgate
Springer International Publishing
University of Ottawa (Canada)
State University of New York at Buffalo
Fordham University
Concepts
Science and literature
Science and gender
Women in science
Newtonianism
Natural philosophy
Poetry and poetics
People
Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle
Behn, Aphra
Conway, Anne
Barbauld, Anna Letitia
Milton, John
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
19th century
Early modern
20th century
Places
Great Britain
England
Europe
Italy
Germany
France
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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