Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era: Bodies of Knowledge

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Cambridge University Press, 2 ¡.Â. 2004 - 324 ˹éÒ
"In 1768, Captain James Cook made the most important scientific voyage of the eighteenth century. He was not alone: scores of explorers like Cook, travelling in the name of science, brought new worlds and new peoples within the horizon of European knowledge for the first time. Their discoveries changed the course of science. Old scientific disciplines, such as astronomy and botany, were transformed; new ones, like craniology and comparative anatomy, were brought into being. Scientific disciplines, in turn, pushed literature of the period towards new subjects, forms and styles. Works as diverse as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Wordsworth's Excursion responded to the explorers' and scientists' latest discoveries. This wide-ranging and 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.
 

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bodies of knowledge I
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Sir Joseph Banks and his networks 33
33
Indian flowers and Romantic Orientalism
71
Banks African exploration
90
slave plantations tropical
108
the skull
127
Theories of terrestrial magnetism and the search
149
Romantic revolution and the legacy
179
vaccination Romanticism
198
Conclusion
271
Index
313
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