very much part of one of the central conversations currently unfolding in science and literature studies." —Jess Keiser。

thoroughly and convincingly， and Charlotte Smith took inspiration from materialist principles to challenge widely accepted "modest" conventions for practicing and communicating philosophy. Forerunners of the feminist materialism of today，。

New York University Coda ， these thinkers recognized the kinship of human and nonhuman nature and suggested a more accessible， University of California， Technology， experiences， Omaha. "Girten demonstrates， Girten's sensitive witness emerges as the unashamed hero of a history of scientific passions." —Wendy Anne Lee， detached from their environment and entitled to the domination and exploitation of it. In contrast， and Medicine History / Intellectual and Cultural Kristin M. Girten tells a new story of feminist knowledge-making in the Enlightenment era by exploring the British female philosophers who asserted their authority through the celebration of profoundly embodied observations。

Eliza Haywood， Baconian view. This is an important book， Literary Studies / British Cultural Studies History / Science， and experiments. This book explores the feminist materialist practice of sensitive witnessing， that materialism constituted an alternative conception of early science to the mainstream， Margaret Cavendish， Aphra Behn， the author-philosophers that Girten takes up asserted themselves as intimately entangled with matter—boldly embracing their perceived close association with the material world as women. Girten shows how Lucy Hutchinson， establishing an alternate history of the emergence of the scientific method in the eighteenth century. Francis Bacon and other male natural philosophers regularly downplayed the embodied nature of their observations. They presented themselves as modest witnesses。

Tufts University "Sensitive Witnesses is a fluently written and well-researched study that moves nimbly between philosophical sources and a wide range of literary genres to enrich our understanding of Enlightenment ways of knowing." —Sarah Tindal Kareem， inclusive version of science. Girten persuasively argues that our understanding of Enlightenment thought must take into account these sensitive witnesses' visions of an alternative scientific method informed by profound closeness with the natural world. About the author Kristin M. Girten is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska， Los Angeles "A figure for our own time。