Literature, science and exploration in the Romantic era : bodies of knowledge / Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee and Peter J. Kitson.
By: Fulford, Tim
Contributor(s): Lee, Debbie | Kitson, Peter J | Lee, Debbie (Deborah Jean)
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TextSeries: Cambridge studies in Romanticism: 60.Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004Description: xvii, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0521829194Subject(s): English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Discoveries in geography -- English -- History -- 19th century | Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Learning and scholarship in literature | Romanticism -- Great Britain | Explorers in literature | Geography in literature | Science in literature | Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Criticism, interpretation, etc. | History.DDC classification: 820.9/36 LOC classification: PR468.S34 | F85 2004Online resources: Book review (H-Net) | Publisher description | Table of contents | Book review (H-Net) | Contributor biographical information | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-312) and index.
Bodies of knowledge -- I: Exploration, science and literature -- Sir Joseph Banks and his networks -- Tahiti in London: London in Tahiti: tools of power -- Indian flowers and Romantic orientalism -- Mental travellers: banks, African exploration and the Romantic imagination -- Banks, Bligh and the breadfruit: slave plantations, tropical islands and the rhetoric of Romanticism -- Exploration, headhunting and race theory: the skull beneath the skin -- Theories of terrestrial magnetism and the search for the poles -- II: British science and literature in the context of empire -- 'Man electrified man': Romantic revolution and the legacy of Benjamin Franklin -- The beast within: vaccination, Romanticism and the Jenneration of disease -- Britain's little black boys and the technologies of benevolence.
"This well-illustrated study shows how literary Romanticism arose partly in response to science's appropriation of explorers' encounters with foreign people and places and how it, in turn, changed the profile of science and exploration."--Jacket.
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