Questioning nature : British women's scientific writing and literary originality 1750-1830 / / Melissa Bailes
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Bailes Melissa
|
| Titolo: |
Questioning nature : British women's scientific writing and literary originality 1750-1830 / / Melissa Bailes
|
| Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, [Virginia] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2017 |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (272 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 820.99287 |
| Soggetto topico: | English literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
| English literature - 18th century - History and criticism | |
| Natural history in literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: Questioning science, questioning originality -- To teach and to please: Anna Barbauld's original poetry and educational prose of natural history -- Hybrid Britons: West Indian colonial identity and Georgic originality in Maria Riddell's natural history -- The evolution of the plagiarist: natural history in Anna Seward's order of poetics -- Plagiarism and the poet-naturalist: Charlotte Smith's collective originality -- Translating cosmopolitanism: revolution in Helen Maria Williams's geopolitical nature -- Reconstructing origins: the psychologization of geological catastrophe in Mary Shelley's The last man -- Conclusion: Felicia Hemans, geological bodies, and the fate of originality. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Questioning nature |
| ISBN: | 0-8139-3977-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910466292203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |