In science's shadow [electronic resource] : literary constructions of late Victorian women / Patricia Murphy.
2006
PR468.S34 M87 2006eb
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In science's shadow [electronic resource] : literary constructions of late Victorian women / Patricia Murphy.
Author
Murphy, Patricia, 1951-
ISBN
082621682X (hard cover : alk. paper)
9780826216823 (hard cover : alk. paper)
9780826216823 (hard cover : alk. paper)
Publication Details
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.
Language
English
Description
ix, 239 p. ; 24 cm.
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PR468.S34 M87 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9/356
Summary
"Through close analysis of noncanonical Victorian-era literature by Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins, Charles Reade, Constance Naden, and Marianne North, Murphy reveals how women were often marginalized, constricted, and defined as intellectually inferior as a result of the interplay of sociohistorical trends driven by scientific curiosity and the 'Woman Question'"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-233) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : the gendered context of Victorian science
Fated marginalization : women and science in the poetry of Constance Naden
A problematic boundary : masculinizing science in Thomas Hardy's Two on a tower
Dangerous behavior : a woman's menacing avocation in Wilkie Collins's Heart and science
"Escaping" gender : the neutral voice in Marianne North's Recollections of a happy life
Evolutionary mediation : the female physician in Charles Reade's A woman-hater.
Fated marginalization : women and science in the poetry of Constance Naden
A problematic boundary : masculinizing science in Thomas Hardy's Two on a tower
Dangerous behavior : a woman's menacing avocation in Wilkie Collins's Heart and science
"Escaping" gender : the neutral voice in Marianne North's Recollections of a happy life
Evolutionary mediation : the female physician in Charles Reade's A woman-hater.