Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era
Subtitle: Bodies of Knowledge (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 23, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780521039956
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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.