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Questioning Nature - British Women's Scientific Writing and Literary Originality, 1750-1830 (Hardcover)
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Questioning Nature - British Women's Scientific Writing and Literary Originality, 1750-1830 (Hardcover)
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In the mid-eighteenth century, many British authors and literary
criticsanxiously claimed that poetry was in crisis. These writers
complained that modern poets plagiarized classical authors as well
as one another, asserted that no new subjects for verse remained,
and feared poetry's complete exhaustion. Questioning Nature
explores how major women writers of the era- including Mary
Shelley, Anna Barbauld, and Charlotte Smith- turned in response to
developing disciplines of natural history such as botany, zoology,
and geology. Recognizing the sociological implications of inquiries
in the natural sciences, these authors renovated notions of
originality through natural history while engaging with questions
of the day. Classifications, hierarchies, and definitions inherent
in natural history were appropriated into discussions of gender,
race, and nation. Further, their concerns with authorship,
authority, and novelty led them to experiment with textual
hybridities and collaborative modes of originality that competed
with conventional ideas of solitary genius. Exploring these authors
and their work, QuestioningNature explains how these women writers'
imaginative scientific writing unveiled a new genealogy for
Romantic originality, both shaping the literary canon and
ultimately leading to their exclusion from it.
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