LEADER 04163nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910963103403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780791486931 010 $a0791486931 010 $a9781417538768 010 $a1417538767 035 $a(CKB)1000000000447474 035 $a(OCoLC)56418461 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10594737 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000239422 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11195062 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000239422 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10239930 035 $a(PQKB)10143296 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6001 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408410 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10594737 035 $a(DE-B1597)683856 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791486931 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408410 035 $a(Perlego)2674611 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000447474 100 $a20021107d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aRomantic science $ethe literary forms of natural history /$fNoah Heringman, editor 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (297 p.) 225 0 $aSUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780791457023 311 08$a0791457028 311 08$a9780791457016 311 08$a079145701X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tFigures -- $tA Note about the Cover -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tThe Boundaries of Natural History -- $t?Twin Labourers and Heirs of the Same Hopes? -- $tThe Rock Record and Romantic Narratives of the Earth -- $t?Great Frosts and . . . Some Very Hot Summers? -- $tThe Global Reach of Natural History -- $tJefferson?s Thermometer -- $tRobinson Crusoe?s Earthenware Pot -- $tFrankenstein, Racial Science, and the ?Yellow Peril? -- $tBotany, Taxonomy, and Political Discourse -- $tLyrical Strategies, Didactic Intent -- $tRomantic Exemplarity -- $tTaxonomical Cures -- $tAbout the Contributors -- $tIndex 330 $aAlthough "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. 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNature in literature 606 $aLiterature and science$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aNatural history in literature 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNature in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and science$xHistory 615 0$aNatural history in literature. 676 $a820.9/36 701 $aHeringman$b Noah$01017541 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910963103403321 996 $aRomantic science$94358998 997 $aUNINA