Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Gender and Nationalism: Describing and Defining Literary Naturalism
  • 1. To Teach and to Please : Anna Barbauld's Original Poetry and Educational Prose of Natural History
  • 2. Hybrid Britons : West Indian Colonial Identity and Georgic Originality in Maria Riddell's Natural History
  • II. Poetic and Biological Forms : Plagiarism, Originality, and Hybridity
  • 3. Evolution of the Plagiarist : Natural History in Anna Seward's Order of Poetics
  • 4. Plagiarism and the Poet-Naturalist : Charlotte Smith's Collective Originality
  • III. Revolution and Geological Sciences : Translations, Beginnings, and Endings
  • 5. Translating Cosmopolitanism : Revolution in Helen Maria Williams's Geopolitical Nature
  • 6. Reconstructing Origins : The Psychologization of Geological Catastrophe in Mary Shelley's The Last Man
  • Conclusion : Felicia Hemans, Geological Bodies, and the Fate of Originality.