Regenerating Romanticism : Botany, Sensibility, and Originality in British Literature, 1750-1830 /

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"This book renovates understandings of sensibility and its importance to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century movement of scientific literature within genres such as poetry, novels, travel writing, children's literature, and even literary criticism that engage with the natural...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bailes, Melissa, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville [Virginia] : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Scientific literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Scientific literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Botany in literature.
Sensitivity (Personality trait) in literature.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Science in literature.
Literary criticism.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Revealing the strawman, or, The historical hoodwinking of Romanticism
  • Botany's seasonal disorder : Thomson's progessive time, conjectural histories, and the backwardness of Spring
  • Linnaeus's botanical clocks : chronobiological mechanisms in the scientific poetry of Erasmus Darwin, Charlotte Smith, and Felicia Hemans
  • Transformations of gender, race, and poetic sensibility : Maria Riddell's transatlantic botany and biopolitics
  • Cultivated for consumption : botany, colonial cannibalism, and national/natural history in Sydney Owenson's Wild Irish girl
  • "On the green margin" : place, sensibility, and originality in Charlotte Smith's "Flora"
  • Botany and madness : Anna Seward, sensibility, and the floral insanities of Darwin, Cowper, Wordsworth, and Clare
  • Conclusion: Sensibility, originality, and scientific literature : De Quincey, Hazlitt, Wordsworth, and the critical fate of Romanticism.

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