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9780791457023: Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History (Suny Series in the Long Nineteenth Century)
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ISBN 10: 0791457028 ISBN 13: 9780791457023
Editorial: State University of New York Press, 2003

Sinopsis

Uncovers the vital role that new scientific discoveries played in Romantic literary culture.

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 surrounding the formation of the modern scientific disciplines emerging from eighteenth-century natural history. Revealing how scientific concerns were literary concerns in the Romantic period, the contributors uncover the vital role that new discoveries in earth, plant, and animal sciences played in the period's literary culture. As Thomas Pennant put it in 1772, "Natural History is, at present, the favourite science over all Europe, and the progress which has been made in it will distinguish and characterise the eighteenth century in the annals of literature." As they examine the social and literary ramifications of a particular branch or object of natural history, the contributors to this volume historicize our present intellectual landscape by reimagining and redrawing the disciplinary boundaries between literature and science.

Contributors include Alan Bewell, Rachel Crawford, Noah Heringman, Theresa M. Kelley, Amy Mae King, Lydia H. Liu, Anne K. Mellor, Stuart Peterfreund, and Catherine E. Ross.

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Noah Heringman is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Missouri at Columbia.

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Editorial
State University of New York Press
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0791457028
ISBN 13 
9780791457023
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
296
Editor
Heringman Noah
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9780791457016: Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History (SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century)

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Editorial: State University of New York Press, 2003
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