Romantic Science : The Literary Forms of Natural History.

Intro -- Romantic Science -- Contents -- List of Figures -- A Note About the Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Commerce of Literature and Natural History by Noah Heringman -- Part I: The Boundaries of Natural History -- 1. "Twin Labourers and Heirs of the Same Hopes": The Professional Rivalry of Humphry Davy and William Wordsworth by Catherine E. Ross -- 2. The Rock Record and Romantic Narratives of the Earth by Noah Heringman -- 3. "Great Frosts and . . . Some Very Hot Summers": Strange Weather, the Last Letters, and the Last Days in Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne by Stuart Peterfreund -- Part II: The Global Reach of Natural History -- 4. Jefferson's Thermometer: Colonial Biogeographical Constructions of the Climate of America by Alan Bewell -- 5. Robinson Crusoe's Earthenware Pot: Science, Aesthetics, and the Metaphysics of True Porcelain by Lydia H. Liu -- 6. Frankenstein, Racial Science, and the "Yellow Peril" by Anne K. Mellor -- Part III: Botany, Taxonomy, and Political Discourse -- 7. Lyrical Strategies, Didactic Intent: Reading the Kitchen Garden Manual by Rachel Crawford -- 8. Romantic Exemplarity: Botany and "Material" Culture by Theresa M. Kelley -- 9. Taxonomical Cures: The Politics of Natural History and Herbalist Medicine in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton by Amy Mae King -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Uncovers the vital role that new scientific discoveries played in Romantic literary culture.

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