02662oam 2200481I 450 99101546205033211-351-93583-61-138-25799-01-315-25503-010.4324/9781315255033 (CKB)3710000000965229(MiAaPQ)EBC4758155(OCoLC)965542801(EXLCZ)99371000000096522920180706e20162008 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierFrankenstein's science experimentation and discovery in Romantic culture, 1780-1830 /edited by Christa Knellwolf and Jane GoodallLondon :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (238 pages) illustrationsFirst published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing.0-7546-5447-8 1-351-93584-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Literature and scienceGreat BritainHistory19th centuryScienceGreat BritainHistory19th centuryElectronic books.Literature and scienceHistoryScienceHistory823/.7Goodall Jane R933793King Christa Knellwolf434491MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154620503321Frankenstein's science2102254UNINA