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Looking at literary discourse, including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, diaries, and drama, this collection offers remarkable and fascinating examples of women writers who integrated scientific material in their literary narratives.

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Introduction: Women, Education and the Margins of Science; J.A.Hayden Foreshadowing Frankenstein; S.Hutton Lucy Hutchinson and the Lucretian Body: Dreams of Order and Disorder; A.Snider Margaret Cavendish, Jan Baptiste van Helmont, and the Madness of the Womb; J.Broad Disability, Medicine, and Metaphysics in the Works of Lady Anne Conway; H.F.Nelson & S.Alker Aphra Behn and the Scientific Self; K.B.Gevirtz Mary Astell and Cartesian ´Scientia´; D.Boyle ´Will you never weary of these Whimsies?´ Susanna Centlivre And the New Science; J.A.Hayden Discovering the Rhetoric of Science: Emilie Du Châtelet´s Dissertation Sur la Nature et Propagation du Feu; J.P.Zinsser Clockwork Character: Francis Burney´s Invented Persons and the Origins of Mechanical Life; J.Park Elizabeth Inchbald´s Animal Magnetism: A Critique of Medical Quackery and Exploitation of Women; F.L.Burwick New Sciences and Female Madness: The Cases of Mary Lamb, Margaret Nicholson, and Sophia Lee´s Almeyda, Queen of Grenada; M.D.Purinton ´Embryo Systems and Unkindled Suns´: Anna Barbauld and Astronomy in the Eighteenth Century; D.Wiegand Gender, Genre and Cultural Analysis: Anne Grant on the Highlands; P.Perkins

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JUDY A. HAYDEN Associate Professor of English and Director of Women´s Studies at the University of Tampa, USA. Her publications include Of Love and War: The Political Voice in the Early Plays of Aphra Behn, a co-edited collection, Many Floridas: Women Envisioning Change, and numerous book articles and essays in journals.

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