New Science and Women's Literary Di Book

Introduction:  Women, Education, and the Margins of Science—Judy A. Hayden
• Foreshadowing Frankenstein—Sarah Hutton
• Lucy Hutchinson and the Lucretian Body: Dreams of Order and Disorder—Alvin Snider * Margaret Cavendish, Jan Baptiste van Helmont, and the Madness of the Womb—Jacqueline Broad * Dis/ability, Medicine, and Metaphysics in the Works of Lady Anne Conway—Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker
• Aphra Behn and the Scientific Self—Karen Bloom Gevirtz
• Mary Astell and Cartesian “Scientia”—Deborah Boyle
• “Will you never weary of these Whimsies?” Susanna Centlivre And the New Science—Judy A. Hayden
• Discovering the Rhetoric of Science: Emilie Du Châtelet’s Dissertation sur la nature et propagation du feu—Judith P. Zinsser
• Clockwork Character: Francis Burney’s Invented Persons and the Origins of Mechanical Life—Julie Park * Elizabeth Inchbald’s Animal Magnetism: A Critique of Medical Quackery and Exploitation of Women—Frederick L. Burwick * New Sciences and Female Madness: The Cases of Mary Lamb, Margaret Nicholson, and Sophia Lee’s Almeyda, Queen of Grenada—Marjean D. Purinton
• ‘Embryo Systems and Unkindled Suns’: Anna Barbauld and Astronomy in the Eighteenth Century—Dometa Wiegand * Gender, Genre, and Cultural Analysis: Anne Grant on the Highlands—Pam Perkins