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Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era - Bodies of Knowledge (Hardcover, New)
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Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era - Bodies of Knowledge (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
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In 1768, Captain James Cook made the most important scientific
voyage of the eighteenth century. He was not alone: scores of
explorers like Cook, travelling in the name of science, brought new
worlds and new peoples within the horizon of European knowledge for
the first time. Their discoveries changed the course of science.
Old scientific disciplines, such as astronomy and botany, were
transformed; new ones, like craniology and comparative anatomy,
were brought into being. Scientific disciplines, in turn, pushed
literature of the period towards new subjects, forms and styles.
Works as diverse as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Wordsworth's
Excursion responded to the explorers' and scientists' latest
discoveries. This wide-ranging and well-illustrated study shows how
literary Romanticism arose partly in response to science's
appropriation of explorers' encounters with foreign people and
places and how it, in turn, changed the profile of science and
exploration.
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