Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era
Subtitle: Bodies of Knowledge (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 4, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780521829199
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Discoveries in geography; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; Great Britain; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 19th century; Literature and science; English literature; History; History and criticism
First sentence: Many men were influential in augmenting the diet of imperialism; none more so than Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), a botanist, collector, traveller, adviser of monarch and ministers and President of the Royal Society.