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

by Shalyn Claggett (Author)

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

Author Biography

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.