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

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 823/.7
• Soggetto topico: Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: GoodallJane R KingChrista Knellwolf
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Frankenstein's science
• ISBN: 1-351-93583-6; 1-138-25799-0; 1-315-25503-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154620503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II