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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Murphy, Patricia, 1951-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2006]
Subjects:	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 literature.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

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.