Romantic Science

Informationen zum Autor Noah Heringman is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Missouri at Columbia. Klappentext Although "romantic science" may sound like a paradox, much of the romance surrounding modern science -- the mad scientist, the intuitive genius, the utopian transformation of nature -- originated in the Romantic period. Romantic Science traces the literary and cultural politics surrounding the formation of the modern scientific disciplines emerging from eighteenth-century natural history. Revealing how scientific concerns were literary concerns in the Romantic period, the contributors uncover the vital role that new discoveries in earth, plant, and animal sciences played in the period's literary culture. Furthermore, as they examine the social and literary ramifications of a particular branch or object of natural history, they historicize our present intellectual landscape by reimagining and redrawing the disciplinary boundaries between literature and science.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Noah Heringham, Noah Heringman, Matthew Schneirov
• Con la collaborazione di: Noah Heringman (Editore)
• Editore: State University of New York Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.06.2003
• EAN: 9780791457016
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-5701-6
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Serie: SUNY Series, Studies in the Lo
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese