In science's shadow literary constructions of late Victorian women /
"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 sociohistor...
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University of Missouri Press,
c2006.
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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.