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

By Judy A. Hayden

Book Overview

Introduction: Women, Education and the Margins of Science; J.A.Hayden Foreshadowing Frankenstein; S.Hutton Lucy Hutchinson and the Lucretian Body: Dreams of Order and Disorder; A.Snider Margaret Cavendish, Jan Baptiste van Helmont, and the Madness of the Womb; J.Broad Disability, Medicine, and Metaphysics in the Works of Lady Anne Conway; H.F.Nelson & S.Alker Aphra Behn and the Scientific Self; K.B.Gevirtz Mary Astell and Cartesian 'Scientia'; D.Boyle 'Will you never weary of these Whimsies?' Susanna Centlivre And the New Science; J.A.Hayden Discovering the Rhetoric of Science: Emilie Du Ch?telet's Dissertation Sur la Nature et Propagation du Feu; J.P.Zinsser Clockwork Character: Francis Burney's Invented Persons and the Origins of Mechanical Life; J.Park Elizabeth Inchbald's Animal Magnetism: A Critique of Medical Quackery and Exploitation of Women; F.L.Burwick New Sciences and Female Madness: The Cases of Mary Lamb, Margaret Nicholson, and Sophia Lee's Almeyda, Queen of Grenada; M.D.Purinton 'Embryo Systems and Unkindled Suns': Anna Barbauld and Astronomy in the Eighteenth Century; D.Wiegand Gender, Genre and Cultural Analysis: Anne Grant on the Highlands; P.Perkins

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349292710
• ISBN13: 9781349292714
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"