In science's shadow [electronic resource] : literary constructions of late Victorian women / Patricia Murphy.
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TextPublication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.Description: ix, 239 pSubject(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
- 820.9/356 22
- PR468.S34 M87 2006
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| Ebook | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online | eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.