Heringman Romantic Science

The Literary Forms of Natural History
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8693-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Uncovers the vital role that new scientific discoveries played in Romantic literary culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heringman, Noah

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
A Note About the Cover
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Commerce of Literature and Natural History
Noah Heringman
Part I: The Boundaries of Natural History
1. "Twin Labourers and Heirs of the Same Hopes": The Professional Rivalry of Humphry Davy and William Wordsworth
Catherine E. Ross
2. The Rock Record and Romantic Narratives of the Earth
Noah Heringman
3. "Great Frosts and. Some Very Hot Summers": Strange Weather, the Last Letters, and the Last Days in Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne
Stuart Peterfreund
Part II: The Global Reach of Natural History
4. Jefferson's Thermometer: Colonial Biogeographical Constructions of the Climate of America
Alan Bewell
5. Robinson Crusoe's Earthenware Pot: Science, Aesthetics, and the Metaphysics of True Porcelain
Lydia H. Liu
6. Frankenstein, Racial Science, and the "Yellow Peril"
Anne K. Mellor
Part III: Botany, Taxonomy, and Political Discourse
7. Lyrical Strategies, Didactic Intent: Reading the Kitchen Garden Manual
Rachel Crawford
8. Romantic Exemplarity: Botany and "Material" Culture
Theresa M. Kelley
9. Taxonomical Cures: The Politics of Natural History and Herbalist Medicine in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton
Amy Mae King
About the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Noah Heringman is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Missouri at Columbia.