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Introduction | |
Educating Mary: women and scientific literature in the early 19th century | |
The professor and the orang-outang: Mary Shelley as a child reader | |
Geographic boundaries and inner space: Frankenstein, scientific explorations and the quest for the absolute | |
Animal experiments and anti-vivisection debates in the 1820s | |
Monstrous progeny: the teratological tradition in science and literature | |
Shadows of the invisible world: Mesmer, Swedenborg and the spiritualist sciences | |
Electrical romanticism | |
Evolution, revolution and Frankenstein's creature | |
Science as spectacle: electrical showmanship in the English Enlightenment | |
Collectors of nature's curiosities: science, popular culture and the rise of natural history museums | |
The nightmare of evolution: H.G. Wells, Percival Lowell and the legacies of Frankenstein's science | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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