Title
- Cambridge Studies In Romanticism ; 60
Attribution
Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee and Peter J. KitsonPublication Details
BookCambridge University Press2004Availability
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Description
The authors of this study examine the massive impact of colonial exploration upon British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- English literature — 19th century — History and criticism
- Literature and science — Great Britain — History — 19th century
- Discoveries in geography — English — History — 19th century
- British — Foreign countries — History — 19th century
- Science — Great Britain — History — 19th century
- Learning and scholarship in literature
- Romanticism — Great Britain
- Explorers in literature
- Geography in literature
- Science in literature
- Great Britain — Intellectual life — 19th century
Notes
- "This well-illustrated study shows how literary Romanticism arose partly in response to science’s appropriation of explorers’ encounters with foreign people and places and how it, in turn, changed the profile of science and exploration."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- Introduction : bodies of knowledge
- 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
- 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
ISBN
- 0521829194
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