Creating Romanticism [electronic resource] : Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s /
Ruston, S.author.
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.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of Abbreviations and Manuscripts""; ""Introduction""; ""'Poetry' and 'science' in the Romantic era""; ""Wordsworth's experiments""; ""Wordsworth the physician""; ""Wordsworth's 'Poet' and the 'Man of science'""; ""1 Mary Wollstonecraft and Nature""; ""1.1 'I am then going to be the first of a new genus': scientific and medical notions of 'woman'""; ""1.2 Joseph Johnson, the Analytical Review, and natural history""; ""1.3 Animal instinct and human reason""; ""1.4 Botany""; ""1.5 Race theory""; ""2 William Godwin and the Imagination""
""2.1 Godwin's scientific and medical writings""""2.2 The evidence of Godwin's diary""; ""2.3 Imagination and theatrical performances of authority""; ""3 Romantic Creation""; ""3.1 Literary composition and organic creation""; ""3.2 Monstrous births and literary invention""; ""4 Humphry Davy and the Sublime""; ""4.1 Science and the sublime""; ""4.2 'I seemed to be a sublime being, newly created and superior to other mortals'""; ""4.3 'Thus would chemistry, in its connections with the laws of life, become the most sublime and important of all sciences'""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""
""Bibliography""""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
British literature.
Poetry.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern—18th century.
Fiction.
British and Irish Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Fiction.