LEADER 00765nam0-2200277 --450 001 9910221349303321 005 20171130094219.0 020 $aIT$b831725 100 $a20171025d1981----kmuy0itay5050 ba 101 0 $aita 102 $aIT 105 $a 001yy 200 1 $aRetorica e educazione$eanalisi storico-critica$fCosimo Laneve 210 $aBrescia$cLa scuola$d1981 215 $a165 p.$d20 cm. 225 1 $aPedagogia e scuola$v59 610 0 $aRetorica$aStoria 676 $a808.009$v22$zita 700 1$aLaneve,$bCosimo$0481496 801 0$aIT$bUNINA$gREICAT$2UNIMARC 901 $aBK 912 $a9910221349303321 952 $a808.009 LAN 1$bDip.f.cl.1210$fFLFBC 959 $aFLFBC 996 $aRetorica e educazione$9948587 997 $aUNINA LEADER 03855oam 2200517I 450 001 9910154620503321 005 20230124193920.0 010 $a1-351-93583-6 010 $a1-138-25799-0 010 $a1-315-25503-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315255033 035 $a(CKB)3710000000965229 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758155 035 $a(OCoLC)965542801 035 $a(BIP)63368852 035 $a(BIP)13099078 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000965229 100 $a20180706e20162008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aFrankenstein's science $eexperimentation and discovery in Romantic culture, 1780-1830 /$fedited by Christa Knellwolf and Jane Goodall 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (238 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aFirst published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a0-7546-5447-8 311 08$a1-351-93584-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThough Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has inspired a vast body of criticism, there are no book-length studies that contextualise this widely taught novel in contemporary scientific and literary debates. The essays in this volume by leading writers in their fields provide 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 embraces a multifaceted view of the exciting cultural climate in Britain and Europe from 1780 to 1830. While Frankenstein is all too often read as a cautionary tale of the inherent dangers of uncontrolled scientific experimentation, the essays here take the reader back to a period when experimenters and radical thinkers viewed science as the harbinger of social innovation that would counter the virulent conservative backlash following the French Revolution. The collection will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars specialising in Romanticism, cultural history, philosophy and the history of science. 606 $aLiterature and science$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aScience$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aLiterature and science$xHistory 615 0$aScience$xHistory 676 $a823/.7 701 $aGoodall$b Jane R$0933793 701 $aKing$b Christa Knellwolf$0434491 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154620503321 996 $aFrankenstein's science$92102254 997 $aUNINA