The new science and women's literary discourse
Subtitle: prefiguring Frankenstein
By: edited by Judy A. Hayden
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780230110298
Subjects: Women authors; English literature; Literature and science; History and criticism; Science in literature; History
Description: Afforded only limited access to the male-dominated sciences, many women writers nevertheless made significant contributions to intellectual culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Women made advances in science and engaged with scientific ideas through various forms of literary discourse, both vitally important in the course of women's history. Looking at 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: women, education and the margins of science / Judy A. Hayden; title: Before Frankenstein / Sarah Hutton; title: Hutchinson and the Lucretian body / Alvin Snider; title: Cavendish, van Helmont, and the mad raging womb / Jacqueline Broad; title: Conway: dis/ability, medicine and metaphysics / Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker; title: Behn and the scientific self / Karen Bloom Gevirtz; title: Astell and Cartesian scientia / Deborah Boyle; title: Centlivre: joint-worms and jointures / Judy A. Hayden; title: Du Châtelet and the rhetoric of science / Judith P. Zinsser; title: The life of Burney's clockwork characters / Julie Park; title: Inchbald: Animal magnetism and medical quackery / Frederick L. Burwick; title: Lee: the new science and female madness / Marjean D. Purinton; title: Barbauld: embryo systems and unkindled suns / Dometa Wiegand; title: Grant: gender, genre and cultural analysis / Pam Perkins.