American women of letters and the nineteenth-century sciences : styles of affiliation / Nina Baym.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2002.Description: x, 265 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0813529840 (alk. paper)
  • 0813529859 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS 217 .S34  B39 2002
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Contents:
Print and women's scientific affiliations -- Almira Phelps and the discipline of botany -- Sarah Hale and the circulation of science -- Catharine Esther Beecher and the sciences of home -- Susan Fenimore Cooper and ladies' science -- Elizabeth Cary Agassiz and heroic science -- Testing scientific limits: Emma Willard and Maria Mitchell -- Emily Dickinson and scientific skepticism -- The sciences in women's novels -- Women of letters and medical science -- Spiritual science.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-253) and index.

Print and women's scientific affiliations -- Almira Phelps and the discipline of botany -- Sarah Hale and the circulation of science -- Catharine Esther Beecher and the sciences of home -- Susan Fenimore Cooper and ladies' science -- Elizabeth Cary Agassiz and heroic science -- Testing scientific limits: Emma Willard and Maria Mitchell -- Emily Dickinson and scientific skepticism -- The sciences in women's novels -- Women of letters and medical science -- Spiritual science.

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