Frankenstein's Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780-1830Christa Knellwolf King, Jane R. Goodall Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008 - 225 pages 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. |
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 |
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