00793nam a22002291i 450099100405744970753620040715125341.0040802s1993 fr |||||||||||||||||fre b13166177-39ule_instARCHE-111878ExLBiblioteca InterfacoltàitaA.t.i. Arché s.c.r.l. Pandora Sicilia s.r.l.848.914Henri Michaux[S.l. :s.n.],19931 v. ;21 cmCritique ;548-549.b1316617702-04-1405-08-04991004057449707536LE002 SP 840/548-54912002000362667le002C. 1-E0.00-lo 00000.i1380575705-08-04Henri Michaux309674UNISALENTOle00205-08-04ma -frefr 0104163nam 2200721Ia 450 991096310340332120200520144314.09780791486931079148693197814175387681417538767(CKB)1000000000447474(OCoLC)56418461(CaPaEBR)ebrary10594737(SSID)ssj0000239422(PQKBManifestationID)11195062(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000239422(PQKBWorkID)10239930(PQKB)10143296(MdBmJHUP)muse6001(Au-PeEL)EBL3408410(CaPaEBR)ebr10594737(DE-B1597)683856(DE-B1597)9780791486931(MiAaPQ)EBC3408410(Perlego)2674611(EXLCZ)99100000000044747420021107d2003 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrRomantic science the literary forms of natural history /Noah Heringman, editor1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20031 online resource (297 p.) SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth centuryBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780791457023 0791457028 9780791457016 079145701X Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Figures -- A Note about the Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Boundaries of Natural History -- “Twin Labourers and Heirs of the Same Hopes” -- The Rock Record and Romantic Narratives of the Earth -- “Great Frosts and . . . Some Very Hot Summers” -- The Global Reach of Natural History -- Jefferson’s Thermometer -- Robinson Crusoe’s Earthenware Pot -- Frankenstein, Racial Science, and the “Yellow Peril” -- Botany, Taxonomy, and Political Discourse -- Lyrical Strategies, Didactic Intent -- Romantic Exemplarity -- Taxonomical Cures -- About the Contributors -- IndexAlthough "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.English literature19th centuryHistory and criticismNature in literatureLiterature and scienceGreat BritainHistory19th centuryNatural history in literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Nature in literature.Literature and scienceHistoryNatural history in literature.820.9/36Heringman Noah1017541MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910963103403321Romantic science4358998UNINA