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.
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