Baym, Nina.

American women of letters and the nineteenth-century sciences : styles of affiliation / Nina Baym. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2002. - x, 265 p. ; 24 cm.

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.

0813529840 (alk. paper) 0813529859 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2001019805

GBA2-06580


American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Literature and science--History--United States--19th century.
Women and literature--History--United States--19th century.
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Women in science--History--United States--19th century.
Science--History--United States--19th century.
Women scientists--United States.
Science in literature.

PS 217 .S34 / B39 2002