The new science and women's literary discourse [electronic resource] : prefiguring Frankenstein / edited by Judy A. Hayden.

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,...

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Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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505 0 |a 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€Ch́telet'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€ 
505 0 |a 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 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. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520 |a 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. 
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