By J. Hayden
Afforded in basic terms constrained entry to the male-dominated sciences, many girls writers however made major contributions to highbrow tradition within the 17th and eighteenth centuries. girls made advances in technology and engaged with clinical rules via a variety of types of literary discourse, either extremely important during women’s history. Looking at poetry, fiction and non-fiction, diaries, and drama, this assortment offers remarkable and interesting examples of ladies writers who built-in clinical fabric of their literary narratives.
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10. See Men, Women, and the Birthing of Modern Science, ed. Judith Zinsser (Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005), especially Margaret Osler, “The Gender of Nature and the Nature of Gender in Early Modern Natural Philosophy,” 71–85. See also my “Riddle of the Sphinx. Francis Bacon and the Emblems of Science,” in Women, Science and Medicine, 1500– 1700, ed. Lynette Hunter and Sarah Hutton (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1997), 7–28. 11. With these caveats in mind, I shall, nevertheless, use the term “science” in my discussion below.
In chapter 11, Marjean Purinton continues Burwick’s exploration of medicine and the theatre. Purinton observes that public instances of female madness were much in the cultural consciousness of the period in which Sophia Lee’s blank-verse tragedy Almedya: Queen of Granada was staged at Drury Lane in 1796. The play featured Sarah Siddons in the title role of a woman who succumbs to mental disease. This techno-gothic drama points to the complex relationships between medicalized theatre and theatricalized medicine.
Likewise, Henry Oldenburg talks of the aims of the Royal Society as setting up “a Masculine Philosophy . . ”8 And Robert Boyle seems to echo Bacon when, in his Some Considerations Touching the Usefulneses of Experimental Natural Philosophy, he asserts no less emphatically that the 's Literary Discourse, Edited by Judy A. indd 19 2/24/2011 4:14:10 PM 20 Sarah Hutton end of science is to dominate nature, which is conceived as feminine. “Physiology,” he writes, “teaches us to know nature, but also .
