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04335aam a2200385 i 4500 001 95E8D16C383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240702013519 008 230607t20242024njua b 001 0ceng d 010 $a 2023035363 020 $a 0691235287 020 $a 9780691235288 040 $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PS1541.Z5 $b B443 2024 082 04 $a 811/.4 $2 23/eng/20240521 082 04 $a 811.4 $q OCoLC $2 23/eng/20240426 100 1 $a Bergland, Renée L., $d 1963- $e author. 245 10 $a Natural magic : $b Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the dawn of modern science / $c Renée Bergland. 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2024] 300 $a xvi, 418 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Preface: An orchis' heart -- Introduction: An enchanted world -- Darwin and Dickinson, childhood portraits -- Darwin the naturalist: Shropshire, Edinburgh, Cambridge, 1809-1831; Darwin, to age 22 -- Nature's people: Scientific Amherst: Amherst, 1830-1836; Dickinson, to age 6 -- Juggler, geologist, dark horse: Aboard the Beagle, 1832-1836; Darwin, age 23-27 -- Dickinson the bold: Amherst, 1836-1847; Dickinson, age 6-16 -- The leading scientific men: London and Amherst, 1836-1845 -- Religion of geology: South Hadley, Amherst, 1847-1851; Dickinson, age 16-20 -- A slow-sailing ship: Downe, Great Malvern, 1842-1851; Darwin, age 33-42 -- Excitement in the village: Amherst, 1851-1857; Dickinson, age 20-26 -- On the origin of species: Downe, 1858-1860; Darwin, age 49-51 -- If you saw a bullet: Amherst, 1857-1861; Dickinson, age 26-31 -- Wild experiment: Downe and Amherst, 1860-1862 -- Melody or witchcraft?: Amherst, 1862-1866 -- Mutual friends: Downe and Amherst, 1866-1882 -- Perfectly disinterested: Darwin's last days -- Nature is a haunted house: Dickinson faces death -- Afterword: Hope is a strange invention: Darwin and Dickinson in the twenty-first century. 520 $a "A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature. Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests, and schoolgirls. The world began to change in the 1830s, while Darwin was exploring the Pacific aboard the Beagle and Dickinson was a student in Amherst, Massachusetts. Poetry and science started to grow apart, and modern thinkers challenged the old orthodoxies, offering thrilling new perspectives that suddenly felt radical-and too dangerous for women.Natural Magic intertwines the stories of these two luminary nineteenth-century minds whose thought and writings captured the awesome possibilities of the new sciences and at the same time strove to preserve the magic of nature. Just as Darwin's work was informed by his roots in natural philosophy and his belief in the interconnectedness of all life, Dickinson's poetry was shaped by her education in botany, astronomy, and chemistry, and by her fascination with the enchanting possibilities of Darwinian science. Casting their two very different careers in an entirely fresh light, Renée Bergland brings to life a time when ideas about science were rapidly evolving, reshaped by poets, scientists, philosophers, and theologians alike. She paints a colorful portrait of a remarkable century that transformed how we see the natural world.Illuminating and insightful, Natural Magic explores how Dickinson and Darwin refused to accept the separation of art and science. Today, more than ever, we need to reclaim their shared sense of ecological wonder"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Dickinson, Emily, $d 1830-1886 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Darwin, Charles, $d 1809-1882. 650 0 $a American literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Literature and science $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Nature in literature. 650 0 $a Philosophy of nature. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century. $2 bisacsh. 650 7 $a SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects. $2 bisacsh. 941 $a 1 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240702031903.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=95E8D16C383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search