Romantic science : the literary forms of natural history /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Heringman, Noah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.
Series:SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
Subjects:
1800-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Nature in literature.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Natural history in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Nature dans la littérature.
Littérature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sciences naturelles dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
Literature and science
Natural history in literature
Nature in literature
Natuurlijke historie.
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Romantiek.
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "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.

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