Preface: romanticism and the sciences of life.(Editorial)

Publication: Studies in Romanticism

Publication Date: 22-MAR-04

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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 Language Association convention. The question was real and well-intentioned even as it expressed the common assumptions that literary scholars who work on Romantic science do so in alien space and with peculiar obsession for an unknown,...

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