The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-11029-8 (ISBN)
JUDY A. HAYDEN Associate Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at the University of Tampa, USA. Her publications include Of Love and War: The Political Voice in the Early Plays of Aphra Behn, a co-edited collection, Many Floridas: Women Envisioning Change, and numerous book articles and essays in journals.
Introduction: Women, Education and the Margins of Science; J.A.Hayden Foreshadowing Frankenstein; S.Hutton Lucy Hutchinson and the Lucretian Body: Dreams of Order and Disorder; A.Snider Margaret Cavendish, Jan Baptiste van Helmont, and the Madness of the Womb; J.Broad Disability, Medicine, and Metaphysics in the Works of Lady Anne Conway; H.F.Nelson & S.Alker Aphra Behn and the Scientific Self; K.B.Gevirtz Mary Astell and Cartesian 'Scientia'; D.Boyle 'Will you never weary of these Whimsies?' Susanna Centlivre And the New Science; J.A.Hayden Discovering the Rhetoric of Science: Emilie Du Châtelet's Dissertation Sur la Nature et Propagation du Feu; J.P.Zinsser Clockwork Character: Francis Burney's Invented Persons and the Origins of Mechanical Life; J.Park Elizabeth Inchbald's Animal Magnetism: A Critique of Medical Quackery and Exploitation of Women; F.L.Burwick New Sciences and Female Madness: The Cases of Mary Lamb, Margaret Nicholson, and Sophia Lee's Almeyda, Queen of Grenada; M.D.Purinton 'Embryo Systems and Unkindled Suns': Anna Barbauld and Astronomy in the Eighteenth Century; D.Wiegand Gender, Genre and Cultural Analysis: Anne Grant on the Highlands; P.Perkins
Zusatzinfo | XVI, 263 p. |
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Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-230-11029-0 / 0230110290 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-230-11029-8 / 9780230110298 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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