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BL
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711161
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b533350
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| Title & Author
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The new science and women's literary discourse : : prefiguring Frankenstein /\ edited by Judy A. Hayden
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| Edition Statement
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First edition
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2011
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xvi, 263 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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0230110290
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: 9780230110298
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: 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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| Abstract
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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
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English literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism
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English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism
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English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism
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Literature and science-- Great Britain-- History-- 17th century
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Literature and science-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century
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Science in literature
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/36
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PR113.N49 2011
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| Added Entry
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Hayden, Judy A
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