Abstract
Contents: Introduction: Nature's school, Teresa Barnard and Ruth Watts. Part I An Engagement with Science: 'To bring this useful invention into fashion in England': Mary Wortley Montagu as medical expert, Daniel J. R. Grey The lure of the volcano in the female literary imagination, Teresa Barnard Women's 'reason' for a 'rising generation': Mary Wollstonecraft, paediatric science and the child of nature, Malini Roy. Part II Religious Discourses: Anxiety, authorship, authority: the maternal feminine and the divine in Hannah More's Sacred Dramas, Susan Chaplin Rethinking surrender: Elizabeth Inchbald and the 'Catholic novel', Kaley Kramer Veiled exegesis: dissenting women's aesthetic approach to theological hermeneutics and social action, Natasha Duquette. Part III Radical Women, Politics, and Philosophy: 'A longing to enjoy my liberty': the patronage, writings, and picturesque tours of Elizabeth Percy, 1st Duchess of Northumberland, Laura Mayer Coming out of the closet and competing with John Anybody: the bold world of Joanna Baillie, Louise Duckling 'France is a republic': The Canterbury Tales and Harriet Lee's revolutionary gothic, Imke Heuer. Select bibliography Index.
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