Deep time : a literary history / Noah Heringman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heringman, Noah, author.

Series:

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geological time in literature.

Human ecology in literature.

Geology in literature.

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

English literature.

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

Literature and science.

Technical writing--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Technical writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.) : 16 b/w illus.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this interdisciplinary work, Noah Heringman argues that the concept of 'deep time' - most often associated with geological epochs - began as a metaphorical language used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the origins of life beyond the written record.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction. Deep Time: A Counterhistory

1 Primitive Rocks and Primitive Customs: Geological and Human Time in the Pacific Voyage Narratives of John Reinhold and George Forster

2 The “Profoundest Depths of Time” in Buffon’s Epochs of Nature

3 William Blake, the Ballad Revival, and the Deep Past of Poetry

4 The Descent into Deep Time in Darwin and Lubbock: Voyage Narrative, Comparative Method, and Human Animality

Afterword. Evolutionary Nostalgia and the Romance of Origins

Notes

Bibliography

Index

A NOTE ON THE TYPE

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 25, 2023).

ISBN:

0-691-23580-5

OCLC:

1346359584