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200 10$aSweet Science $eRomantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life /$fAmanda Jo Goldstein
210  1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2017]
210  4$d©2017
215   $a1 online resource $cillustrations (black and white)
300   $aPreviously issued in print: 2017.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: "Sweet Science" --$tChapter 1. Blake's Mundane Egg: Epigenesis and Milieux --$tChapter 2. Equivocal Life: Goethe's Journals on Morphology --$tChapter 3. Tender Semiosis: Reading Goethe with Lucretius and Paul de Man --$tChapter 4. Growing Old Together: Lucretian Materialism in Shelley's The Triumph of Life --$tChapter 5. A Natural History of Violence: Allegory and Atomism in Shelley's The Mask of Anarchy --$tCoda: Old Materialism, or Romantic Marx --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex
330   $aToday we do not expect poems to carry scientifically valid information. But it was not always so. In Sweet Science, Amanda Jo Goldstein returns to the beginnings of the division of labor between literature and science to recover a tradition of Romantic life writing for which poetry was a privileged technique of empirical inquiry. Goldstein puts apparently literary projects, such as William Blake's poetry of embryogenesis, Goethe's journals On Morphology, and Percy Shelley's "poetry of life," back into conversation with the openly poetic life sciences of Erasmus Darwin, J. G. Herder, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Such poetic sciences, Goldstein argues, share in reviving Lucretius's De rerum natura to advance a view of biological life as neither self-organized nor autonomous, but rather dependent on the collaborative and symbolic processes that give it viable and recognizable form. They summon De rerum natura for a logic of life resistant to the vitalist stress on self-authorizing power and to make a monumental case for poetry's role in the perception and communication of empirical realities. The first dedicated study of this mortal and materialist dimension of Romantic biopoetics, Sweet Science opens a through-line between Enlightenment materialisms of nature and Marx's coming historical materialism.
606   $aEuropean literature$y9th century$xHistory and criticism
606   $aRomanticism
606   $aMaterialism in literature
606   $aLiterature and science
610   $aJohann Wolfgang von Goethe.
610   $aLucretius.
610   $aPercy Shelley.
610   $aRomanticism.
610   $aWilliam Blake.
610   $abiology.
610   $aempiricism.
610   $amaterialism.
610   $apoetry.
615  0$aEuropean literature$xHistory and criticism.
615  0$aRomanticism.
615  0$aMaterialism in literature.
615  0$aLiterature and science.
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