Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era
Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era
Bodies of Knowledge
Tim Fulford, Nottingham Trent University
Debbie Lee, Washington State University
Peter J. Kitson, University of Dundee
Debbie Lee, Washington State University
Peter J. Kitson, University of Dundee
October 2004
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The authors of this study examine the massive impact of colonial exploration upon British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s. This broad-ranging survey will appeal to literary and cultural studies scholars.
- Broad-ranging study examining the effects of exploration and colonialism on the development of science and culture in the Romantic era
- Well illustrated
- Written by three eminent experts
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"This well-written, meticulously researched book should be in every collection supporting the study of Romantic literature. Essential."
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July 2007Paperback
9780521039956
348 pages
228 × 152 × 19 mm
0.524kg
23 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- A note on the text
- Frequently cited texts
- Introduction: bodies of knowledge
- Part I. Exploration, Science and Literature:
- 1. Sir Joseph Banks and his networks
- 2. Tahiti in London
- London in Tahiti: tools of power
- 3. Indian flowers and Romantic Orientalism
- 4. Mental travellers: Banks, African exploration and the Romantic imagination
- 5. Banks, Bligh and the breadfruit: slave plantations, tropical islands and the rhetoric of Romanticism
- 6. Exploration, headhunting and race theory: the skull beneath the skin
- 7. Theories of terrestrial magnetism and the search for the poles
- Part II. British Science and Literature in the Context of Empire:
- 8. 'Man electrified man': Romantic revolution and the legacy of Benjamin Franklin
- 9. The beast within: vaccination, Romanticism and the Jenneration of disease
- 10. Britain's little black boys and the technologies of benevolence
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index.
