{"product_id":"literature-science-and-exploration-in-the-romantic-era-bodies-of-knowledge-hardback-9780521829199","title":"Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era; Bodies of Knowledge (Hardback) 9780521829199","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLiterature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBodies of Knowledge\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExamines the massive impact of colonial exploration on British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTim Fulford (Author), Debbie Lee (Author), Peter J. Kitson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521829199, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 September 2004\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e348 pages, 23 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16.3 x 2.3 cm, 0.625 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This is a wonderfully provocative book, replete with broad speculations, new ideas, forgotten facts, and neglected histories. Jointly conceived by three authors, it represents the best of interdisciplinary inquiry and scholarly engagement. The clarity of its introduction assures from the start an ongoing usefulness to students, general readers, and scholars.' CLIO\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e A note on the text\u003cbr\u003e Frequently cited texts\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: bodies of knowledge\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Exploration, Science and Literature: 1. Sir Joseph Banks and his networks\u003cbr\u003e 2. Tahiti in London\u003cbr\u003e London in Tahiti: tools of power\u003cbr\u003e 3. Indian flowers and Romantic Orientalism\u003cbr\u003e 4. Mental travellers: Banks, African exploration and the Romantic imagination\u003cbr\u003e 5. Banks, Bligh and the breadfruit: slave plantations, tropical islands and the rhetoric of Romanticism\u003cbr\u003e 6. Exploration, headhunting and race theory: the skull beneath the skin\u003cbr\u003e 7. Theories of terrestrial magnetism and the search for the poles\u003cbr\u003e Part II. British Science and Literature in the Context of Empire: 8. 'Man electrified man': Romantic revolution and the legacy of Benjamin Franklin\u003cbr\u003e 9. The beast within: vaccination, Romanticism and the Jenneration of disease\u003cbr\u003e 10. Britain's little black boys and the technologies of benevolence\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265190842648,"sku":"9780521829199","price":90.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521829199i.jpg?v=1692020342","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/literature-science-and-exploration-in-the-romantic-era-bodies-of-knowledge-hardback-9780521829199","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}