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Literature, science and exploratioin in the romantic era : bodies of knowledge
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Literature, science and exploratioin in the romantic era : bodies of knowledge

Author: Tim Fulford; Debbie Lee; Peter J Kitson
Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007, ©2004.
Series: Cambridge studies in Romanticism, 60.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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Examines the massive impact of colonial exploration on British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s.

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Tim Fulford; Debbie Lee; Peter J Kitson
ISBN: 0521039959 9780521039956 9780521829199 0521829194
OCLC Number: 227517090
Notes: Digitally printed version 2007 - t.p. verso.
Description: xvii, 324 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; A note on the text; Frequently cited texts; Introduction: bodies of knowledge; Part I. Exploration, Science and Literature: 1. Sir Joseph Banks and his networks; 2. Tahiti in London; London in Tahiti: tools of power; 3. Indian flowers and Romantic Orientalism; 4. Mental travellers: Banks, African exploration and the Romantic imagination; 5. Banks, Bligh and the breadfruit: slave plantations, tropical islands and the rhetoric of Romanticism; 6. Exploration, headhunting and race theory: the skull beneath the skin; 7. Theories of terrestrial magnetism and the search for the poles; Part II. British Science and Literature in the Context of Empire: 8. 'Man electrified man': Romantic revolution and the legacy of Benjamin Franklin; 9. The beast within: vaccination, Romanticism and the Jenneration of disease; 10. Britain's little black boys and the technologies of benevolence; Conclusion; Notes; Index.
Series Title: Cambridge studies in Romanticism, 60.
Responsibility: Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee and Peter J. Kitson.

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