Frankenstein's Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780-1830

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Christa Knellwolf King, Jane R. Goodall
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008 - 225 pages
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This collection looks to reopen the question of how science and scientific ambition are portrayed in Frankenstein by offering a range of historical perspectives, based on detailed accounts of areas of scientific knowledge that are relevant to it.
 

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Contents

Women and Scientific Literature in the Early
17
Mary Shelley as a Child
33
Frankenstein Scientific
49
Animal Experiments and Antivivisection Debates in the 1820s
71
The Teratological Tradition in Science
87
Electrical Romanticism
117
Evolution Revolution and Frankensteins Creature
133
Electrical Showmanship in the English
151
Science Popular Culture and the
167
H G Wells Percival Lowell and the
183
Bibliography
201
Index
219
Copyright

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About the author (2008)

Christa Knellwolf is a Visiting Professor of English and Cultural Theory at the University of Konstanz and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Australian National University. She has published widely on the age of Enlightenment and the cultural impact of science and exploration. Jane Goodall is a Professor with the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

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TitleFrankenstein's Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780-1830
EditorsChrista Knellwolf King, Jane R. Goodall
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008
ISBN0754654478, 9780754654476
Length225 pages
  
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