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Novel Science (Hardcover)
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Novel Science (Hardcover)
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"Novel Science" is the first in-depth study of the shocking,
groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen
of the "heroic age" of geology and of the contribution these men
made to the literary culture of their day. For these men,
literature was an essential part of the practice of science itself,
as important to their efforts as mapmaking, fieldwork, and
observation. The reading and writing of imaginative literatures
helped them to discover, imagine, debate, and give shape and
meaning to millions of years of previously undiscovered earth
history. Borrowing from the historical fictions of Walter Scott and
the poetry of Lord Byron, they invented geology as a science,
discovered many of the creatures we now call the dinosaurs, and
were the first to unravel and map the sequence and structure of
stratified rock. As Adelene Buckland shows, they did this by
rejecting the grand narratives of older theories of the earth or of
biblical cosmogony: theirs would be a humble science, faithfully
recording minute details and leaving the big picture for future
generations to paint. Buckland also reveals how these scientists -
just as they had drawn inspiration from their literary predecessors
- gave Victorian realist novelists such as George Eliot, Charles
Kingsley, and Charles Dickens a powerful language with which to
create dark and disturbing ruptures in the too-seductive sweep of
story.
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