Earth on Show - Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856

Zusammenfassung Tracks the growth of geology's prestige in Britain! exploring how a geohistory of Creation was assembled and sold to the wider Biblereading public. In exploring the use of poetry and spectacle in the promotion of popular science! this book attempts to prove that geology's success owed much to the literary techniques of its authors.

Product details

• Authors: O&, Ralph O'Connor, Ralph O''connor, O'Connor Ralph, Ralph O&
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2007
• EAN: 9780226616681
• ISBN: 978-0-226-61668-1
• No. of pages: 542
• Dimensions: 191 mm x 260 mm x 44 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Science, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Geology & The Lithosphere, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form