Equal Natures - Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women''s Writing

Explores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms of power.

About the author

Shalyn Claggett is Associate Professor of English at Mississippi State University. She is the coeditor (with Lara Karpenko) of Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age.

Product details

• Authors: Shalyn Claggett
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2023
• EAN: 9781438493169
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9316-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: SUNY Series, Studies in the Lo; SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; SCIENCE / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Ireland, History of Science, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Literature: history and criticism