Cargando…
Romantic science : the literary forms of natural history /
"Although "romantic science" may sound like a paradox, much of the romance surrounding modern science - the mad scientist, the intuitive genius, the utopian transformation of nature - originated in the Romantic period. Romantic Science traces the literary and cultural politics surroun...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2003.
|
| Colección: | SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Twin labourers and heirs of the same hopes": the professional rivalry of Humphry Davy and William Wordsworth / Catherine E. Ross.
- The rock record and romantic narratives of the earth / Noah Heringman.
- "Great Frosts and ... Some very Hot Summers": strange weather, the last letters, and the last days in Gilbert White's the Natural History of Selbourne / Stuart Peterfreund.
- Jefferson's thermometer: colonial biogeographical constructions of the climate of America / Alan Bewell.
- Robinson Crusoe's earthenware pot: science, aesthetics, and the metaphysics of true porcelain / Lydia H. Liu.
- Frankenstein, racial science, and the "Yellow Peril" / Anne K. Mellor.
- Lyrical strategies, didactic intent: reading the kitchen garden manual / Rachel Crawford.
- Romantic exemplarity: botany and "material" culture / Theresa M. Kelley.
- Taxonomical cures: the politics of natural history and herbalist medicine in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton / Amy Mae King.