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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154620503321

Titolo

Frankenstein's science : experimentation and discovery in Romantic culture, 1780-1830 / / edited by Christa Knellwolf and Jane Goodall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-93583-6

1-138-25799-0

1-315-25503-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

GoodallJane R

KingChrista Knellwolf

Disciplina

823/.7

Soggetti

Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.