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Author:

Bailes, Melissa, 1979- author.

Title:

Questioning nature : British women's scientific writing and literary originality, 1750-1830 / Melissa Bailes.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

pages cm

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Natural history--Great Britain--Authorship.
Natural history literature--Great Britain.
Literature and science--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Literature and science--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Scientific literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Scientific literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Nature in literature.
English literature--Women authors.
Literature and science.
Natural history--Authorship.
Natural history literature.
Nature in literature.
Scientific literature.
Great Britain.
1700-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Questioning science, questioning originality -- To teach and to please: Anna Barbauld's original poetry and educational prose of natural history -- Hybrid Britons: West Indian colonial identity and Georgic originality in Maria Riddell's natural history -- The evolution of the plagiarist: natural history in Anna Seward's order of poetics -- Plagiarism and the poet-naturalist: Charlotte Smith's collective originality -- Translating cosmopolitanism: revolution in Helen Maria Williams's geopolitical nature -- Reconstructing origins: the psychologization of geological catastrophe in Mary Shelley's The last man -- Conclusion: Felicia Hemans, geological bodies, and the fate of originality.

ISBN:

0813939763
9780813939766

OCLC:

(OCoLC)965147827

LCCN:

2016053317

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)