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UNINA9910154620503321 |
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Titolo |
Frankenstein's science : experimentation and discovery in Romantic culture, 1780-1830 / / edited by Christa Knellwolf and Jane Goodall |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-351-93583-6 |
1-138-25799-0 |
1-315-25503-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GoodallJane R |
KingChrista Knellwolf |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Introduction / Christa Knellwolf and Jane Goodall -- 2. Educating Mary : women and scientific literature in the early nineteenth century / Patricia Fara -- 3. The professor and the orang-outang : Mary Shelley as a child reader / Judith Barbour -- 4. Geographic boundaries and inner space : Frankenstein, scientific explorations and the quest for the absolute / Christa Knellwolf -- 5. Animal experiments and antivivisection debates in the 1820s / Anita Guerrini -- 6. Monstrous progeny : the teratological tradition in science and literature / Melinda Cooper -- 7. Shadows of the invisible world : Mesmer, Swedenborg and the spiritualist sciences / Joan Kirkby -- 8. Electrical romanticism / Jane Goodall -- 9. Evolution, revolution and Frankenstein's creature / Allan K. Hunter -- 10. Science as spectacle : electrical showmanship in the English Enlightenment / Ian Jackson -- 11. Collectors of nature's curiosities : science, popular culture and the rise of natural history museums / Christine Cheater -- 12. The nightmare of evolution : H.G. Wells, Percival Lowell and the legacies of Frankenstein's science / Robert Markley. |
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