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Creating Romanticism: Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print)
Sharon Ruston
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Description for Creating Romanticism: Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print)
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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
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137264282
SKU
V9781137264282
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About Sharon 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 (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print)
"...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