In science's shadow : literary constructions of late Victorian women / Patricia Murphy

Author: Murphy, Patricia, 1951-
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2006]
Copyright Date: ©2006
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 239 pages)

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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.

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"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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9780826265579 (electronic bk.)
082626557X (electronic bk.)
082621682X (hard cover ; alk. paper)
9780826216823 (hard cover ; alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index.

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