Table of Contents: In science's shadow

Main Author:	Murphy, Patricia, 1951-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.
Subjects:	English literature > History and criticism. > 19th century Literature and science > History > 19th century. > Great Britain Sexism in science > History > 19th century. > Great Britain Women in science. Women in literature. Sexism in literature. Prejudices in literature.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10188299

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.