Description
Book SynopsisWith this groundbreaking study, Melissa Bailes renovates understandings of sensibility and its importance to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century movement of scientific literature within genres such as poetry, novels, travel writing, children’s literature that obviously and technically engage with the natural sciences.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Revealing the Strawman; or, the Historical Hoodwinking of Romanticism
- 1. Botany's Seasonal Disorder: Thomson's Progressive Time, Conjectural Histories, and the Backwardness of Spring
- 2. Linnaeus's Botanical Clocks: Chronobiological Mechanisms in the Scientific Poetry of Erasmus Darwin, Charlotte Smith, and Felicia Hemans
- 3. Transformations of Gender, Race, and Poetic Sensibility: Maria Riddell's Transatlantic Botany and Biopolitics
- 4. Cultivated for Consumption: Botany, Colonial Cannibalism, and National/Natural History in Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl
- 5. "On the green margin": Place, Sensibility, and Originality in Charlotte Smith's "Flora"
- 6. Botany and Madness: Anna Seward, Sensibility, and the Floral Insanities of Darwin, Cowper, Wordsworth, and Clare
- Conclusion: De Quincey, Hazlitt, Wordsworth, and the Critical Fate of Romanticism and Scientific Literature
- Notes
- Bibliography
