Introduction: women, education and the margins of science / Judy A. Hayden
Before Frankenstein / Sarah Hutton
Hutchinson and the Lucretian body / Alvin Snider
Cavendish, van Helmont, and the mad raging womb / Jacqueline Broad
Conway: dis/ability, medicine and metaphysics / Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker
Behn and the scientific self / Karen Bloom Gevirtz
Astell and Cartesian scientia / Deborah Boyle
Centlivre: joint-worms and jointures / Judy A. Hayden
Du Châtelet and the rhetoric of science / Judith P. Zinsser
The life of Burney's clockwork characters / Julie Park
Inchbald: Animal magnetism and medical quackery / Frederick L. Burwick
Lee: the new science and female madness / Marjean D. Purinton
Barbauld: embryo systems and unkindled suns / Dometa Wiegand
Grant: gender, genre and cultural analysis / Pam Perkins.
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The new science and women's literary discourse : prefiguring Frankenstein. ISBN 9780230110298. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
