Romanticism and Science

TRAMA

In the years 1760-1840, scientific developments were revolutionizing the ways in which people viewed the world, and this extended to the literary arena. Ranging from late eighteenth-century political writings to mid-nineteenth- century pamphlets on vaccination, this collection is divided into sections by scientific discipline, each illuminating a context of current interest to literary scholars. The first volume offers an extensive introduction tracing the development of various scientific fields, and explores the central texts/discoveries and their significance, as well as providing an account of their impact on literature. A bibliography of major scientific works and suggestions for critical reading is also provided, as is a detailed index.

NOTE EDITORE

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is perhaps the best-known and most widely studied literary representation of science. Yet it is by no means the only text of its time to fictionalize the latest experiments and discoveries of natural philosophers. Science was burgeoning in the years 1760-1840, revolutionising how people saw the world around them, and this extended to the literary world. This five volume set is divided into sections by scientific discipline, each illuminating a context of current interest to literary scholars. An extensive introduction is included in the first volume giving a brief history of the development of various scientific fields - including Geology, Palaeontology, Chemistry and Physics - resumes of the central texts/discoveries and their significance, and an account of their impact on literature - and sometimes, literature's impact on science. A bibliography of major scientific works and suggestions for critical reading is also provided and the set is completed with a detailed index.The set is divided as follows:Volume 1:Science and Politics; Medicine; Mesmerism; Electricity/Electro-Chemistry/Galvanism and MagnetismVolume 2:Chemistry; Heat and LightVolume 3:Astronomy; Mensuration/Instruments; Women in Science; Science and Social Change; Institutionalization; Philosophy of Science and Engineering and TechnologyVolume 4:Manufactures; Botany; Natural History and Meteorology; Exploration and the Races of Humankind: Craniology, Physiognomy, PhrenologyVolume 5:Theories of Life; Comparative Anatomy and Geology/Palaeontology

SOMMARIO

Volume IScience And Politics1. Edmund Burke Extract from Reflections on the Revolution in France pp.90-91 [1790]2. Thomas Beddoes Extract from Essay on the Public Merits of Mr Pitt pp. 164-70 [1796]3. Joseph Priestley Extract from Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air pp. xi-xvi [1774]4. John Robison Extracts from Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe pp. 431-33, 480-83 [1798]Medicine5. James Graham Extract from A Sketch, or Short Description of Dr Graham's Medical Apparatus pp. 161 [1780]6. James Graham Extract from The Celestial Beds; Or, A Review of the Votaries of the Temple of Health, Adelphi, and the Temple of Hymen, Pall-Mall, Volume 1 pp. 17-21 [1781]7. James Graham Extract from Medical Transactions at the Temple of Health pp. 1-5 [1782]8. John Brown Extracts from The Elements of Medicine of John Brown, M. D. Volume 1 pp. cxxvi-viii, 49-94 [1795]9. Matthew Baillie Preface to the first edition of The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body reprinted in the second edition pp. i-xi [1797]10. Edward Jenner Extracts from An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae pp. 3-10, 32-34 [1798]11. Thomas Beddoes Extract from Hygeia Volume 1 pp. 69-85 [1802]12. Robert Bloomfield Extract from Good Tidings; or, News from the Farm, The Poems of Robert Bloomfield pp.108-125 [1827]13. James Anderson Communications on Vaccination to The Asiatic Annual Register, (1805 and 1806) pp. 16-17, 76, 112-14 [1806]14. Pamphlets on Vaccination The Edinburgh Review, 15, pp. 324-51 [1810]15. Gilbert Blane Comparative Health of the Navy 1779-1814, with Proposals for its Further Improvement from Select Dissertations pp. 175-98 [1822]16. Robert Southey A Tale of Paraguay canto 1, stanza 1 [1825]17. Reginald Orton Extract from An Essay on the Epidemic Cholera of India, Second Edition pp. 382-92 [1831]18. Henry Gaulter Extracts from The Origins and Progress of the Malignant Cholera in Manchester pp. 50-51, 88-97, 160-63 [1833]Mesmerism19. J. Pearson Extracts from A Plain and Rational Account of the Nature and Effects of Animal Magnetism pp. 1-7, 24-25 [1790]20. John Ferriar, M. D., Extracts from 'Of Popular Illusions, and particularly of Medical Demonology,' Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester pp. 81-82, 96-103 [1790]21. Ebeneezer Sibly Extract from The Key to Physic pp. 257-61 [1794]22. The Lectures of J. B. de Mainauduc, M. D. pp. 97-108 [1798]23. Thomas De Quincey 'Animal Magnetism' Tait's Edinburgh Magazine pp. 456-74 [1834]Electricity/Electro-Chemistry/Galvanism24. John Wesley Extracts from The Desideratum: or, Electricity Made Plain and Useful pp. 14-15, 18-19, 44-45 [1771]25. Erasmus Darwin Extracts from The Botanic Garden. A Poem in Two Parts Volume 1, pp. 19-20, 34-38 [1791]26. Alessandro Volta On the Electricity Excited by the Mere Contact of Conducting Substances of Different Kinds Philosophical Magazine pp. 289-311 [1800]27. Anthony Carlisle and William Nicholson Account of the new Electrical or Galvanic Apparatus of Sig. Alex Volta, and Experiments performed with the same Nicholson's Journal pp. 179-87 [1800]28. Giovanni Aldini An Account of Experiments Performed by J. Aldini on the Body of a Malefactor Executed at Newgate, January 17th 1803 An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism, with a Series of Curious and Interesting Experiments . . . Containing the Author's Experimen

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780415219525
• Collana: Subcultures and Subversions: 1750-1850
• Dimensioni: 9.25 x 6.25 in Ø 7.10 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 1672