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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Glavni autor: Murphy, Patricia, 1951-
Autor kompanije: ebrary, Inc
Format: Elektronički e-knjiga
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.
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  • 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.