Literature, science and exploration in the Romantic era : bodies of knowledge / Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee and Peter J. Kitson

Literature, science and exploration in the Romantic era : bodies of knowledge / Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee and Peter J. Kitson.

Author/creator	Fulford, Tim, 1962-
Other author/creator	Lee, Debbie (Deborah Jean), 1960-
Other author/creator	Kitson, Peter J.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2004.
Description	xvii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Subject(s)	English literature--19th century --History and criticism. Literature and science--Great Britain --History --19th century. Discoveries in geography--English --History --19th century. British--Foreign countries --History --19th century. Science--Great Britain --History --19th century. Learning and scholarship in literature. Romanticism--Great Britain. Explorers in literature. Geography in literature. Science in literature. Great Britain--Intellectual life --19th century.

Series	Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 60 Cambridge studies in Romanticism 60. ^A309218
Contents	Bodies of knowledge -- I: Exploration, science and literature -- Sir Joseph Banks and his networks -- Tahiti in London: London in Tahiti: tools of power -- Indian flowers and Romantic orientalism -- Mental travellers: banks, African exploration and the Romantic imagination -- Banks, Bligh and the breadfruit: slave plantations, tropical islands and the rhetoric of Romanticism -- Exploration, headhunting and race theory: the skull beneath the skin -- Theories of terrestrial magnetism and the search for the poles -- II: British science and literature in the context of empire -- 'Man electrified man': Romantic revolution and the legacy of Benjamin Franklin -- The beast within: vaccination, Romanticism and the Jenneration of disease -- Britain's little black boys and the technologies of benevolence.
Local note	Little-347805--305131054525Y
Local note	Little-347805--305131054525Y
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-312) and index.
LCCN	2003063280
ISBN	0521829194
ISBN	9780521829199

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PR468.S34 F85 2004	✔ Available	Place Hold