Imagination and science in Romanticism

Imagination and science in Romanticism / Richard C. Sha.

"In Imagination and Science in Romanticism, Richard Sha challenges the idea that the imagination could only be applied to the literary and that its primary role was to transcend scientific concerns. Sha shows how the imagination functioned within physics and chemistry in Prometheus Unbound, neu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sha, Richard C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
1800-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Science in literature.
Imagination in literature.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Discoveries in science > History > 19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Discoveries in science
English literature
Imagination in literature
Romanticism
Science in literature
Englisch
Imagination > Motiv
Literatur
Romantik
Wissenschaft > Motiv
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Imagining dynamic matter: Percy Shelley, Prometheus unbound and the chemistry and physics of matter
  • William Blake and the neurological imagination: romantic science, nerves, and the emergent self
  • The physiological imagination and Coleridge's Biographia
  • Obstetrics and embryology: science and imagination in Frankenstein.

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