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In science's shadow

by Murphy, Patricia,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : University of Missouri Press, (Columbia :) Physical details: ix, 239 p.
Subject(s): English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. | Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. | Sexism in science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. | Women in science. | Women in literature. | Sexism in literature. | Prejudices in literature. | Marginality, Social, in literature. | Electronic books.
Year: 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-233) and index.

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.

"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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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