Ruston Creating Romanticism

Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s
2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-26429-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 218 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

This book argues that the term 'Romanticism' should be more culturally-inclusive, recognizing the importance of scientific and medical ideas that helped shape some of the key concepts of the period, such as natural rights, the creative imagination and the sublime.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ruston, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Mary Wollstonecraft and Nature 2. William Godwin and the Imagination 3. Romantic Creation 4. Humphry Davy and the Sublime 5. Conclusion Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Sharon Ruston is Chair in Romanticism at Lancaster University, UK. She has published Shelley and Vitality (2005), Romanticism: An Introduction (2007), and has edited The Influence and Anxiety of the British Romantics: Spectres of Romanticism (1999), Literature and Science (2008) and co-edited Teaching Romanticism (2010).