Questioning nature : British women's scientific writing and literary originality 1750-1830 / / Melissa Bailes |
Autore | Bailes Melissa |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, [Virginia] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Virginia Press, , 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. |
ISBN | 0-8139-3977-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910466292203321 |
Bailes Melissa
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Charlottesville, [Virginia] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2017 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Questioning nature : British women's scientific writing and literary originality 1750-1830 / / Melissa Bailes |
Autore | Bailes Melissa |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, [Virginia] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Virginia Press, , 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 |
ISBN | 0-8139-3977-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792891503321 |
Bailes Melissa
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Charlottesville, [Virginia] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2017 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Questioning nature : British women's scientific writing and literary originality 1750-1830 / / Melissa Bailes |
Autore | Bailes Melissa |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, [Virginia] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Virginia Press, , 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 |
ISBN | 0-8139-3977-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806237903321 |
Bailes Melissa
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Charlottesville, [Virginia] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2017 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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