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.
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.