Questioning Nature : British Women's Scientific Writing and Literary Originality, 1750-1830 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bailes, Melissa, 1979-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women authors, English.
Natural history in literature.
English literature > Women authors.
English literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Écrivaines anglaises.
Sciences naturelles dans la litterature.
Litterature anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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