Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Celebrated as an actress on the London stage (1776-80) and notorious as the mistress of the Prince of Wales (1779-80), Mary Darby Robinson had to write to support herself from the mid-1780s until her death in 1800. She mastered a wide range of styles, published prolifically, and became the poetry editor of the Morning Post. As her writing developed across the 1790s, she increasingly used the motifs of Gothic fiction and drama descended from Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto (1764). These came to pervade her late novels and poems so much that she even wrote her autobiography as a Gothic romance. She also deployed them to critique the ideologies of male dominance and the forms of writing in which they appeared. This progression culminated in her final collection of verses, Lyrical Tales (1800), where she Gothically exposes the conflicted underpinnings in the now-famous Lyrical Ballads (1798) by Wordsworth and Coleridge.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English --- History and criticism. --- Robinson, Mary, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- English gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- English fiction --- Perdita, --- Robinson, Perdita, --- Robinson, --- Friend to humanity, --- Laura Maria, --- Robinson, M. --- Juvenal, Horace, --- Randall, Anne Frances, --- Bramble, Tabitha, --- Robbinson,

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book provides a fascinating insight into the life and scientific work of Laura Bassi, the first female member of the influential Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna and also the first woman to be appointed a university professor in physics, or universal philosophy as it was then termed. The book describes Laura Bassi’s research activities and achievements, explaining the influence of Newton, her role in promoting Newtonian experimental physics in Bologna, and her work as an experimentalist, including on electricity. Much attention is paid to the context in which Bassi developed her career. The very considerable difficulties faced by a woman surrounded by male university teachers and members of the Academy are discussed, casting light on the constraints that led Bassi to set up the first experimental physics laboratory in her home, complete with the many instruments required for experimentation and private teaching. The aim is to provide a rounded and well-documented account of the scientific endeavors and achievements of a too often overlooked scientist who struggled to overcome the prejudices of her age.

Physics. --- Civilization—History. --- History. --- History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. --- Cultural History. --- History of Science. --- Popular Science in Physics. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Women physicists --- Bassi, Laura, --- Physicists --- Women in physics --- Women physical scientists --- Bassi Verati, Laura, --- Verati, Laura Bassi, --- Bassi, Laura Maria Catharina, --- Physics—Philosophy. --- Science—History. --- Astronomy. --- Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy. --- Physics and Astronomy.