Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era: Bodies of Knowledge
- ISBN13:
9780521829199
- ISBN10:
0521829194
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2004-10-04
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| Part I. Exploration, Science and Literature: 1. Sir Joseph Banks and his Networks | |
| 2. Tahiti in London | |
| London in Tahiti: tools of power | |
| 3. Indian flowers and Romantic Orientalism | |
| 4. Mental travellers: Banks, African exploration and the Romantic imagination | |
| 5. Banks, Bligh, and the breadfruit: slave plantations, tropical islands and the rhetoric of Romanticism | |
| 6. Exploration, headhunting and race theory: the skull beneath the skin | |
| 7. Theories of terrestrial magnetism and the search for the poles | |
| Part II. British Science and Literature in the Context of Empire: 8. 'Man electrified man': Romantic revolution and the legacy of Benjamin Franklin | |
| 9. The beast within: vaccination, romanticism and the Jenneration of disease | |
| 10. Britain's little black boys and the technologies of benevolence | |
| Conclusion. |
