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The culture of nature in Britain, 1680-1860 / Peter M. Harman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harman, P. M. (Peter Michael), 1943-2014.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature (Aesthetics)--History.
- Nature (Aesthetics).
- Nature and civilization--Great Britain--History.
- Nature and civilization.
- History.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life.
- Great Britain.
- Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Themes and Contexts 1
- Nature and the Culture of Modernity: Science Agriculture and Industry 3
- 'Ancients and 'Moderns Jonathan Swift and Gulliver's Travels 12
- Chapter 2 Design 22
- Nature and Culture: Natural Theology 24
- The Aesthetics of Nature 38
- Chapter 3 Exploration 53
- Exploration, Empire and Travel 54
- Tropical Forests and Polar Ice 64
- Scientific Travel Narratives / Alexander von Humboldt 75
- Scientific Travel Narratives / Charles Darwin 83
- Chapter 4 Landscape, Georgic and Picturesque 93
- Golden Landscape: Pastoral and Georgic 96
- The Aesthetics of the Earth 104
- 'Artificial Rudeness: Landscape Gardens 113
- The Picturesque Aesthetic 120
- Landforms and Rocks: From the Picturesque to Naturalism 130
- Chapter 5 Landscape, 'Truth of Nature 148
- Naturalism and Landscape Aesthetics: John Constable 150
- The Language of Landscape / William Wordsworth 159
- Landscape and Geology / Charles Lyell 171
- 'Truth of Nature / John Ruskin 181
- Chapter 6 Flora and Fauna, the 'Tree of Life 196
- Wonders and Classification 199
- Classification and the Culture of Flowers / Carl Linnaeus, Erasmus Darwin, Horace Walpole 204
- 'Natural Selection / Charles Darwin 212
- The Aesthetics of Natural History / John Ruskin 228
- Chapter 7 Colour 234
- Colour in Nature and Art 235
- Casting Light on Colours 241
- Colour Harmonies, Circles and Triangles 249
- Unweaving the Rainbow 267
- Nature Takes a 'Colouring Fit 273
- Chapter 8 Vital Forces 283
- Active Principles and Ethers 285
- Problems of Materialism 299
- The Philosophy of Nature: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 312
- Matter and Life: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 321
- Chapter 9 Nature and Culture 334.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-378) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300151978
- 0300151977
- OCLC:
- 317471807
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