How did the idea of the imagination impact Romantic literature and
science? 2018 Winner, Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize, The
International Conference on Romanticism Richard C. Sha argues that
scientific understandings of the imagination indelibly shaped
literary Romanticism. Challenging the idea that the imagination
found a home only on the side of the literary, as a mental vehicle
for transcending the worldly materials of the sciences, Sha shows
how imagination helped to operationalize both scientific and
literary discovery. Essentially, the imagination forced writers to
consider the difference between what was possible and impossible
while thinking about how that difference could be known. Sha
examines how the imagination functioned within physics and
chemistry in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, neurology
in Blake's Vala, or The Four Zoas, physiology in Coleridge's
Biographia Literaria, and obstetrics and embryology in Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein. He also demonstrates how the imagination
was called upon to do aesthetic and scientific work using primary
examples taken from the work of scientists and philosophers Davy,
Dalton, Faraday, Priestley, Kant, Mary Somerville, Oersted, Marcet,
Smellie, Swedenborg, Blumenbach, Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, and Von
Baer, among others. Sha concludes that both fields benefited from
thinking about how imagination could cooperate with reason-but that
this partnership was impossible unless imagination's penchant for
fantasy could be contained.
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