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- catalog abstract ""Although "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."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b12917852.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Although "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.".
- catalog description ""Twin labourers and heirs of the same hopes": the professional rivalry of Humphry Davy and William Wordsworth / Catherine E. Ross. --The rock record and romantic narratives of the earth / Noah Heringman. --"Great Frosts and ... Some very Hot Summers": strange weather, the last letters, and the last days in Gilbert White's the Natural History of Selbourne / Stuart Peterfreund. --Jefferson's thermometer: colonial biogeographical constructions of the climate of America / Alan Bewell. --Robinson Crusoe's earthenware pot: science, aesthetics, and the metaphysics of true porcelain / Lydia H. Liu. --Frankenstein, racial science, and the "Yellow Peril" / Anne K. Mellor. --Lyrical strategies, didactic intent: reading the kitchen garden manual / Rachel Crawford. --Romantic exemplarity: botany and "material" culture / Theresa M. Kelley. --Taxonomical cures: the politics of natural history and herbalist medicine in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton / Amy Mae King.".
- catalog description "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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 281 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Romantic science.".
- catalog identifier "079145701X (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0791457028 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Romantic science.".
- catalog isPartOf "SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albany : State University of New York Press,".
- catalog relation "Romantic science.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "820.9/36 21".
- catalog subject "English literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literature and science Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Natural history in literature.".
- catalog subject "Nature in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR468.N3 R66 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents ""Twin labourers and heirs of the same hopes": the professional rivalry of Humphry Davy and William Wordsworth / Catherine E. Ross. --The rock record and romantic narratives of the earth / Noah Heringman. --"Great Frosts and ... Some very Hot Summers": strange weather, the last letters, and the last days in Gilbert White's the Natural History of Selbourne / Stuart Peterfreund. --Jefferson's thermometer: colonial biogeographical constructions of the climate of America / Alan Bewell. --Robinson Crusoe's earthenware pot: science, aesthetics, and the metaphysics of true porcelain / Lydia H. Liu. --Frankenstein, racial science, and the "Yellow Peril" / Anne K. Mellor. --Lyrical strategies, didactic intent: reading the kitchen garden manual / Rachel Crawford. --Romantic exemplarity: botany and "material" culture / Theresa M. Kelley. --Taxonomical cures: the politics of natural history and herbalist medicine in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton / Amy Mae King.".
- catalog title "Romantic science : the literary forms of natural history / Noah Heringman, editor.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".