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9780754654476

Frankenstein's Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780û1830

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  • ISBN13:

    9780754654476

  • ISBN10:

    0754654478

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2017-08-25
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Frankenstein's Science contextualizes this widely taught novel in contemporary scientific and literary debates, providing 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 will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars specializing in Romanticism, cultural history, and the history of science.

Table of Contents

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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