Jane Goodall

Frankenstein's Science

Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780-1830
Herausgeber: Knellwolf, Christa

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Produktbeschreibung

Frankenstein's Science contextualizes this widely taught novel in contemporary scientific and literary debates, providing new historical scholarship into areas of science and pseudo-science that generated fierce controversy in Mary Shelley's time: anatomy, electricity, medicine, teratology, Mesmerism, quackery, and proto-evolutionary biology. The collection will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars specializing in Romanticism, cultural history, and the history of science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9781138257993
• ISBN-10: 1138257990
• Artikelnr.: 57051696

Autorenporträt

Christa Knellwolf is a Visiting Professor of English and Cultural Theory at the University of Konstanz and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Australian National University. She has published widely on the age of Enlightenment and the cultural impact of science and exploration. Jane Goodall is a Professor with the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Christa Knellwolf and Jane Goodall; Educating Mary: women and scientific literature in the early 19th century
Patricia Fara; The professor and the orang-outang: Mary Shelley as a child reader
Judith Barbour; Geographic boundaries and inner space: Frankenstein
scientific explorations and the quest for the absolute
Christa Knellwolf; Animal experiments and anti-vivisection debates in the 1820s
Anita Guerrini; Monstrous progeny: the teratological tradition in science and literature
Melinda Cooper; Shadows of the invisible world: Mesmer
Swedenborg and the spiritualist sciences
Joan Kirkby; Electrical romanticism
Jane Goodall; Evolution
revolution and Frankenstein's creature
Allan K. Hunter; Science as spectacle: electrical showmanship in the English Enlightenment
Ian Jackson; Collectors of nature's curiosities: science
popular culture and the rise of natural history museums
Christine Cheater; The nightmare of evolution: H.G. Wells
Percival Lowell and the legacies of Frankenstein's science
Robert Markley; Bibliography; Index.