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245 00 $aFrankenstein's science :$bexperimentation and discovery in Romantic culture, 1780-1830 /$cedited by Christa Knellwolf and Jane Goodall.
260 $aAldershot, England ;$aBurlington, VT :$bAshgate,$cc2008.
300 $ax, 225 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [201]-218) and index.
505 0 $aEducating Mary : women and scientific literature in the early nineteenth century / Patricia Fara -- The professor and the orang-outang : Mary Shelley as a child reader / Judith Barbour -- Geographic boundaries and inner space : Frankenstein, scientific explorations and the quest for the absolute / Christa Knellwolf -- Animal experiments and antivivisection debates in the 1820s / Anita Guerrini -- Monstrous progeny : the teratological tradition in science and literature / Melinda Cooper -- Shadows of the invisible world : Mesmer, Swedenborg and the spiritualist sciences / Joan Kirkby.
520 1 $a"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. The collection will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars specialising in Romanticism, cultural history, philosophy and the history of science."--Jacket.
600 10 $aShelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,$d1797-1851.$tFrankenstein.
650 0 $aLiterature and science$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aScience$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aFrankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character)
650 0 $aScientists in literature.
650 0 $aScience in literature.
650 0 $aRomanticism$zGreat Britain.
700 1 $aKing, Christa Knellwolf.
700 1 $aGoodall, Jane R.
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