Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era Bodies of Knowledge

Name: Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era Bodies of Knowledge
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ISBN: 9780521039956

ISBN-10: 0521039959

ISBN-13: 9780521039956

Edition: N/A

Authors: Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee, Peter J. Kitson

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The authors of this study examine the massive impact of colonial exploration upon British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s. This broad-ranging survey will appeal to literary and cultural studies scholars.

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List price: $60.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/23/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Tim Fulford is a Professor of English at De Montfort University, Leicester. He has published widely on Romantic and eighteenth-century literature and culture. He is editor of The Banks of Wye: A Critical Edition (2012) and co-editor of Robert Southey: Later Poetical Works, 1811 1838 (2012).



List of illustrations


Acknowledgements


A note on the text


Frequently cited texts


Introduction: bodies of knowledge



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 skull beneath the skin



Theories of terrestrial magnetism and the search for the poles



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 Jenneration of disease



Britain's little black boys and the technologies of benevolence


Conclusion


Notes


Index