Regenerating Romanticism : botany, sensibility, and originality in British literature, 1750-1830 / Melissa Bailes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bailes, Melissa, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science in literature.

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Sensitivity (Personality trait) in literature.

Botany in literature.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Literature and science--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Literature and science.

Literature and science--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Scientific literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Scientific literature.

Scientific literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

viii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville [Virginia] : University of Virginia Press, 2023.

Summary:

"This book renovates understandings of sensibility and its importance to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century movement of scientific literature within genres such as poetry, novels, travel writing, children's literature, and even literary criticism that engage with the natural sciences, and especially with botany, by male and female writers, including Charlotte Smith, Anna Seward, Maria Riddell, Anna Barbauld, and Sydney Owenson, among many others."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Revealing the strawman, or, The historical hoodwinking of Romanticism

Botany's seasonal disorder : Thomson's progessive time, conjectural histories, and the backwardness of Spring

Linnaeus's botanical clocks : chronobiological mechanisms in the scientific poetry of Erasmus Darwin, Charlotte Smith, and Felicia Hemans

Transformations of gender, race, and poetic sensibility : Maria Riddell's transatlantic botany and biopolitics

Cultivated for consumption : botany, colonial cannibalism, and national/natural history in Sydney Owenson's Wild Irish girl

"On the green margin" : place, sensibility, and originality in Charlotte Smith's "Flora"

Botany and madness : Anna Seward, sensibility, and the floral insanities of Darwin, Cowper, Wordsworth, and Clare

Conclusion: Sensibility, originality, and scientific literature : De Quincey, Hazlitt, Wordsworth, and the critical fate of Romanticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-262) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bailes, Melissa, 1979- Disrupting Romanticism

ISBN:

9780813949406

0813949408

9780813949413

0813949416

OCLC:

1359048467