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In science's shadow [electronic resource] : literary constructions of late Victorian women / Patricia Murphy.

By: Murphy, Patricia, 1951-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006Description: ix, 239 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(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 literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 820.9/356 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
Summary: "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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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.