Autobiography and natural science in the age of Romanticism
Subtitle: Rousseau, Goethe, Thoreau
By: Bernhard Kuhn.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780754661665; 9780754696155
Subjects: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, -- 1712-1778; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, -- 1712-1778; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, -- 1749-1832; Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862; Authors -- Biography -- History and criticism; Autobiography; Natural history in literature; Self in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Literature and science -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The nature of identity and the identity of nature; title: Natural science and the self in Rousseau's Confessions; title: Rêveries and the re-enchantement of nature; title: Goethe's autobiographical science; title: Self-formations: order and disorder in poetry and truth; title: The metamorphosis of Thoreau; title: Prolific hybrids: Walden and Thoreau's natural history.