Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era: Bodies of Knowledge: 60 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 60) - Softcover

Fulford, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521039959 ISBN 13: 9780521039956

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

In Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era, Fulford, Kitson and Lee examine the massive impact of colonial exploration upon British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s. This broad-ranging and well illustrated study will appeal to literary and cultural studies scholars.

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'An important requirement for the establishment of knowledge is knowledge of the establishment. the authors of this well-researched and fascinating book have illustrated this truth more amply than they concede.' MLR

'This is a wonderfully provocative book, replete with broad speculations, new ideas, forgotten facts, and neglected histories. Jointly conceived by three authors, it represents the best of interdisciplinary inquiry and scholarly engagement. The clarity of its introduction assures from the start an ongoing usefulness to students, general readers, and scholars.' CLIO

Reseña del editor:

In 1768, Captain James Cook made the most important scientific voyage of the eighteenth century. He was not alone: scores of explorers like Cook, travelling in the name of science, brought new worlds and new peoples within the horizon of European knowledge for the first time. Their discoveries changed the course of science. Old scientific disciplines, such as astronomy and botany, were transformed; new ones, like craniology and comparative anatomy, were brought into being. Scientific disciplines, in turn, pushed literature of the period towards new subjects, forms and styles. Works as diverse as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Wordsworth's Excursion responded to the explorers' and scientists' latest discoveries. This wide-ranging and 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.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521039959
• ISBN 13: 9780521039956
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 348