Regenerating romanticism: botany, sensibility, and originality in British literature, 1750-1830

"This book renovates understandings of sensibility and its importance to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century movement of scientific literature within genres such as poetry, novels, travel writing, children's literature, and even literary criticism that engage with the natural...

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1. Verfasser: Bailes, Melissa 1979- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Charlottesville ; London University of Virginia Press 2023
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Zusammenfassung:"This book renovates understandings of sensibility and its importance to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century movement of scientific literature within genres such as poetry, novels, travel writing, children's literature, and even literary criticism that engage with the natural sciences, and especially with botany, by male and female writers, including Charlotte Smith, Anna Seward, Maria Riddell, Anna Barbauld, and Sydney Owenson, among many others"--
Introduction: Revealing the strawman; or, The historical hoodwinking of Romanticism -- Temporal sensibilities. Botany's seasonal disorder: Thomson's progessive time, conjectural histories, and the backwardness of Spring -- Linnaeus's botanical clocks: chronobiological mechanisms in the scientific poetry of Erasmus Darwin, Charlotte Smith, and Felicia Hemans -- Sensibility and empire: gender, race, and nation. Transformations of gender, race, and poetic sensibility: Maria Riddell's transatlantic botany and biopolitics -- Cultivated for consumption: botany, colonial cannibalism, and national/natural history in Sydney Owenson's The wild Irish girl -- "On the green margin": place, sensibility, and originality in Charlotte Smith's "Flora" -- Botany and madness: Anna Seward, sensibility, and the floral insanities of Darwin, Cowper, Wordsworth, and Clare -- Conclusion: Sensibility, originality, and scientific literature: De Quincey, Hazlitt, Wordsworth, and the critical fate of Romanticism.
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 241-262
Beschreibung:viii, 272 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780813949406
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