The new science and women's literary...
Hayden, Judy A.

 

  • The new science and women's literary discourse[electronic resource] :prefiguring Frankenstein /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 820.9/36
    書名/作者: The new science and women's literary discourse : prefiguring Frankenstein // edited by Judy A. Hayden.
    其他作者: Hayden, Judy A.
    出版者: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2011.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource.
    標題: English literature - Women authors
    標題: English literature - History and criticism. - 18th century
    標題: English literature - History and criticism. - Early modern, 1500-1700
    標題: Science in literature.
    標題: Literature and science - History - 18th century. - Great Britain
    標題: Literature and science - History - 17th century. - Great Britain
    標題: English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700
    標題: Literature.
    標題: LITERARY CRITICISM - European
    ISBN: 9780230118430 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0230118437 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 1283096560
    ISBN: 9781283096560
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: Introduction:� Women, Education, and the Margins of Science -- Judy A. Hayden * Foreshadowing Frankenstein -- Sarah Hutton * Lucy Hutchinson and the Lucretian Body: Dreams of Order and Disorder -- Alvin Snider�* Margaret Cavendish, Jan Baptiste van Helmont, �and the Madness of the Womb -- Jacqueline Broad�* Dis/ability, Medicine, and Metaphysics in the�Works of Lady Anne Conway -- Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker * Aphra Behn and the Scientific Self -- Karen Bloom Gevirtz * Mary Astell and Cartesian "Scientia" -- Deborah Boyle * "Will you never weary of these Whimsies?"�Susanna Centlivre And the New Science -- Judy A. Hayden * Discovering the Rhetoric of Science: Emilie Du�C�htelet's Dissertation sur la nature et propagation du feu -- Judith P. Zinsser * Clockwork Character:�Francis Burney's Invented�Persons and the Origins of Mechanical Life -- Julie Park�* Elizabeth Inchbald's Animal Magnetism: A Critique�of Medical Quackery and Exploitation of Women -- Frederick L. Burwick�* New Sciences and Female Madness: The Cases of Mary Lamb, Margaret Nicholson, and Sophia Lee's Almeyda, Queen of Grenada -- Marjean D. Purinton * 'Embryo Systems and Unkindled Suns': Anna Barbauld and Astronomy in the Eighteenth Century -- Dometa Wiegand�* Gender, Genre, and Cultural Analysis: Anne Grant on the Highlands -- Pam Perkins�.
    摘要、提要註: 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. Through various forms of literary discourse, women attempted to engage with scientific ideas.��These women, too,��were female pioneers in science,��and��are vitally important in the course of women's history.��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 materi.
    電子資源: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
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