This roundtable brings a variety of topics in science and medicine together and seeks to offer a more comprehensive understanding of the intersection of literature, science, and medicine during the Romantic period. How, the presenters of this roundtable ask, did female Romantic writers incorporate scientific/medical knowledge into their works despite being barred from actively participating in scientific/medical discourses?
The four speakers will present on topics such as environmental humanities and Ann Radcliffe's travel writing, botany and Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl (1806) as a Bildungsroman, sleep studies and Mary Wollstonecraft's and Mary Shelley's notions of dreaming, and Wollstonecraft's Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) as feminist disability life writing.
Speakers: Risako Nomura, Emily Barber, Katherine Gaffney, Liz Wan.
When: May 18, 2026 05:00 PM London
Topic: Science and Medicine in Women's Writing in the Romantic Period
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