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Author:

Fulford, Tim, 1962-

Title:

Literature, science and exploration in the Romantic era : bodies of knowledge / Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee and Peter J. Kitson.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

xvii, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism
Literature and science--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Discoveries in geography--History--History--19th century.
British--Foreign countries--History--19th century.
Science--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Learning and scholarship in literature.
Romanticism--Great Britain.
Explorers in literature.
Geography in literature.
Science in literature.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Other Authors:

Lee, Debbie.
Kitson, Peter J.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-312) and index.

Contents:

Bodies of knowledge -- I: Exploration, science and literature -- Sir Joseph Banks and his networks -- Tahiti in London: London in Tahiti: tools of power -- Indian flowers and Romantic orientalism -- Mental travellers: banks, African exploration and the Romantic imagination -- Banks, Bligh and the breadfruit: slave plantations, tropical islands and the rhetoric of Romanticism -- Exploration, headhunting and race theory: the skill beneath the skin -- Theories of terrestrial magnetism and the search for the poles -- II: British science and literature in the context of empire -- 'Man electrified man': Romantic revolution and the legacy of Benjamin Franklin -- The beast within: vaccination, Romanticism and the Jefferation of disease -- Britain's little black boys and the technologies of benevolence.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Romanticism 60

ISBN:

9780521829199
0521829194

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53375115

LCCN:

2003063280

Locations:

O4AX446 -- Chadwick Library

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

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)