American women of letters and the nineteenth-century sciences
Subtitle: styles of affiliation
By: Nina Baym.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Literature and science -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women in science -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Science -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Women scientists -- United States.; Science in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I; title: Acknowledgments Lx; title: 1 Print and Women s ScientificAffiliations; title: 2 Almira Phelps and the Discipline ofBotany; title: 3 Sarah Hale and the Circulation ofScience; title: 4 Catharine Esther Beecher and the Sciences ofHome; title: 5 Susan Fenimore Cooper and Ladies'Science; title: 6 Elizabeth CaryAgassiz and Heroic Science; title: 7 Testing Scientific Limits: Emma Willard; title: and Maria Mitchell; title: 8 Emily Dickinson and Scientific Skepticism; title: 9 The Sciences in Women s Novels; title: 10 Women ofLetters and Medical Science; title: 11 Spiritual Science; title: Notes 211; title: Works Cited 231; title: Index 255.