The new science and women's literary discourse : prefiguring Frankenstein

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The new science and women's literary discourse : prefiguring Frankenstein

edited by Judy A. Hayden

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-254) and index

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  • Women, education, and the margins of science / Judy A. Hayden
  • Before 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

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