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Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History

Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History

Heringman, Noah

Paperback

Series: SUNY Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Literary CriticismSports GeneralBritish History

ISBN10: 0791457028
ISBN13: 9780791457023
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 2 2003
Pages: 281
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.86 Depth: 9.14
Language: English

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.

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