The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse [electronic resource] : Prefiguring Frankenstein /
Hayden, J.editor.
Looking at literary discourse, including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, diaries, and drama, this collection offers remarkable and fascinating examples of women writers who integrated scientific material in their literary narratives.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: women, education and the margins of science / Judy A. Hayden -- Foreshadowing 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.
Looking at literary discourse, including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, diaries, and drama, this collection offers remarkable and fascinating examples of women writers who integrated scientific material in their literary narratives.
Literature—Philosophy.
Social history.
British literature.
History.
Civilization—History.
Literature, Modern—18th century.
Literary Theory.
Social History.
British and Irish Literature.
History of Science.
Cultural History.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.