| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: 單行本
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| 副題名: |
prefiguring Frankenstein |
| 合作者: |
HaydenJudy A., |
| 其他團體作者: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| 出版地: |
New York |
| 出版者: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| 出版年: |
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 - Great Britain - 18th century. - |
| 標題: |
Literature and science - History - Great Britain - 17th century. - |
| 標題: |
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - |
| 標題: |
Literature. - |
| 標題: |
LITERARY CRITICISM - European - |
| 電子資源: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230118430An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| 附註: |
Description based on print version record. |
| 摘要註: |
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. |
| ISBN: |
9780230118430electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230118437electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1283096560 |
| ISBN: |
9781283096560 |
| 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�. Introduction: women, education and the margins of science / Judy A. Hayden Foreshadowing 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 Ch�atelet 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. |