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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Main Author: Bailes, Melissa, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville [Virginia] : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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 sciences, and especially with botany, by male and female writers, including Charlotte Smith, Anna Seward, Maria Riddell, Anna Barbauld, and Sydney Owenson, among many others."--
Physical Description:1 online resource (282 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9780813949420

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