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Women, Science, and Fiction : The Frankenstein Inheritance
Debra Benita Shaw
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Description for Women, Science, and Fiction : The Frankenstein Inheritance
Hardcover. This study traces the history of women's science fiction writing from the turn of the century to the early 1990s, analysing how women writers have utilized the genre to critique the ideology that informs what counts as scientific knowledge. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBH; DSK; FL; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
Since Mary Shelley drew inspiration for Frankenstein from the scientific speculations to which she attended as a 'nearly silent listener' at the now famous chateau in Switzerland, many other women have been similarly motivated to produce works informed by scientific theory. Successive chapters trace the history of women's science fiction writing from the turn of the century to the early 1990s, analysing how women writers have utilised the genre to critique the ideology that informs what counts as scientific knowledge.
Since Mary Shelley drew inspiration for Frankenstein from the scientific speculations to which she attended as a 'nearly silent listener' at the now famous chateau in Switzerland, many other women have been similarly motivated to produce works informed by scientific theory. Successive chapters trace the history of women's science fiction writing from the turn of the century to the early 1990s, analysing how women writers have utilised the genre to critique the ideology that informs what counts as scientific knowledge.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Publishers, Limited
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
231
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333741580
SKU
V9780333741580
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99-15
About Debra Benita Shaw
DEBRA SHAW is Lecturer in Twentieth Century English Literature and Critical Theory at the University of North London. She is a member of the British Science Fiction Association.
Reviews for Women, Science, and Fiction : The Frankenstein Inheritance
It has a number of strengths for scholars working in the area of science fiction and gender. It is highly readable... Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts