Studies in Romanticism articles from March 2004

Studies in Romanticism archives from March 2004

Preface: romanticism and the sciences of life.(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE TO BE WORKING ALONE ON SUCH ARCANE material... as if you are on Mars?" This bemused query from a romantic scholar was addressed to the three panelists of a division meeting on Romantic era science at the 2000 Modern...

Romanticism and colonial natural history.
March 22, 2004... "The wilderness has a mysterious tongue Which teaches awful doubt" ("Mont Blanc" 76-77) (1) THAT "NATURE" IS A PRIMARY TOPIC IN ENGLISH ROMANTIC LITERATURE IS commonplace. For many, Romanticism is nature writing, and quite rightly so,...

William Blake and the world's body of science.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... THE BOOK OF URIZEN, CONCEIVED AS THE "FIRST" BOOK OF THE DEVILISH "Bible of Hell" that William Blake announced in 1793 in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Plate 24), (1) satirizes theories of creation favored by the reason-bound and theoretical...

Conducting the vital fluid: the politics and poetics of mesmerism in the 1790s.
March 22, 2004... BY DECEMBER 1795 PRIME MINISTER WILLIAM PITT WAS WELL ON THE way to crushing political dissent in Britain. He had tried reformers for treason, passed laws restricting the right of association and suspended habeas corpus, all without an outcry...

Composing what may not be "sad trash": a reconsideration of Mary Shelley's use of Paracelsus in Frankenstein.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... THOSE WHO HAVE ADDRESSED THE SIGNIFICANCE OF VICTOR FRANKENstein's reading in Albertus Magnus (c. 1200-1280); Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535); and Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better and more conveniently known as...

Thoreau, crystallography, and the science of the transparent.
March 22, 2004... IN AN 1842 LETTER, SOPHIA HAWTHORNE DESCRIBES AN AFTERNOON DURIing which her husband Nathaniel led Emerson and Thoreau down to a frozen Concord River for some ice-skating: (1) Henry Thoreau is an experienced skater, and was figuring ...

Romanticism and the triumph of life science: prospects for study.
March 22, 2004... TO THE MAJORITY OF LITERARY SCHOLARS, THE FIELDS OF ROMANTIC LIFE science remain, along with their speculative import for future inquiry, subjects at once peripheral, discrete, and arcane. Published work on romantic life science by literary...

Eric G. Wilson. The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science, and the Imagination.(Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Eric G. Wilson. The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science, and the Imagination. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003. Pp. viii+278. $45.00. Noah Heringman, ed. Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History. Albany: State...

Alan Bewell. Romanticism and Colonial Disease.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Alan Bewell. Romanticism and Colonial Disease. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Pp. 373- $23.95 paper. Immanuel Kant had such confidence that the pacifying "spirit of commerce" would eventually overcome the nationalist and...

Alan Richardson. British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Alan Richardson. British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 266. $60.00. This important book attempts a very brave feat. It argues that the study of literary romanticism has taken...

Maureen N. McLane. Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population and the Discourse of the Species.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Maureen N. McLane. Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population and the Discourse of the Species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 282. $60.00. The critical study of literature draws much of its prestige from the...