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Kitson, Peter 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8947-4859, Fulford, Timothy and Lee, Debbie
(2004)
Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era: Bodies of Knowledge.
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
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Cambridge University Press.
ISBN 9780521829199
Abstract
In 1768, Captain James Cook made the most important scientific voyage of the eighteenth century. He was not alone: scores of explorers like Cook, travelling in the name of science, brought new worlds and new peoples within the horizon of European knowledge for the first time. Their discoveries changed the course of science. Old scientific disciplines, such as astronomy and botany, were transformed; new ones, like craniology and comparative anatomy, were brought into being. Scientific disciplines, in turn, pushed literature of the period towards new subjects, forms and styles. Works as diverse as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Wordsworth's Excursion responded to the explorers' and scientists' latest discoveries. This wide-ranging and well-illustrated study shows how literary Romanticism arose partly in response to science's appropriation of explorers' encounters with foreign people and places and how it, in turn, changed the profile of science and exploration.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Research Group |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jun 2013 14:00 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2024 08:35 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/42841 |
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