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Women, Science and Fiction: The Frankenstein Inheritance - Hardcover

Shaw, D.

 
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Synopsis

Since Mary Shelley drew inspiration for Frankenstein from the scientific speculations to which she attended as a 'nearly silent listener' at the now famous chateau in Switzerland, many other women have been similarly motivated to produce works informed by scientific theory. Successive chapters trace the history of women's science fiction writing from the turn of the century to the early 1990s, analysing how women writers have utilised the genre to critique the ideology that informs what counts as scientific knowledge.

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About the Author

DEBRA SHAW is Lecturer in Twentieth Century English Literature and Critical Theory at the University of North London. She is a member of the British Science Fiction Association.

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