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Creating Romanticism: Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s
S. Ruston
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Description for Creating Romanticism: Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s
paperback. This book argues that the term 'Romanticism' should be more culturally-inclusive, recognizing the importance of scientific and medical ideas that helped shape some of the key concepts of the period, such as natural rights, the creative imagination and the sublime. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 246 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
This book argues that the term 'Romanticism' should be more culturally-inclusive, recognizing the importance of scientific and medical ideas that helped shape some of the key concepts of the period, such as natural rights, the creative imagination and the sublime.
This book argues that the term 'Romanticism' should be more culturally-inclusive, recognizing the importance of scientific and medical ideas that helped shape some of the key concepts of the period, such as natural rights, the creative imagination and the sublime.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349442959
SKU
V9781349442959
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About S. Ruston
Sharon Ruston is Chair in Romanticism at Lancaster University, UK. She has published Shelley and Vitality (2005), Romanticism: An Introduction (2007), and has edited The Influence and Anxiety of the British Romantics: Spectres of Romanticism (1999), Literature and Science (2008) and co-edited Teaching Romanticism (2010).
Reviews for Creating Romanticism: Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s
"...a fascinating and thoroughly convincing call to re-examine not just "Romanticism and Science" but "Romanticism" itself. If Ruston is correct about the deliberate use of scientific and medical ideas in some of the period's foundational literary texts - and I have every confidence that she is - then Creating Romanticism should find an audience well beyond those of us interested ... Read more