Frankenstein`s Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780-1830, Goodall Jane, Knellwolf Christa

Автор: Goodall
Название: Frankenstein`s Science
ISBN: 1138257990 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138257993
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Though Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has inspired a vast body of criticism, there are no book-length studies that contextualise this widely taught novel in contemporary scientific and literary debates. The essays in this volume by leading writers in their fields provide new historical scholarship into areas of science and pseudo-science that generated fierce controversy in Mary Shelley's time: anatomy, electricity, medicine, teratology, Mesmerism, quackery and proto-evolutionary biology. The collection embraces a multifaceted view of the exciting cultural climate in Britain and Europe from 1780 to 1830. While Frankenstein is all too often read as a cautionary tale of the inherent dangers of uncontrolled scientific experimentation, the essays here take the reader back to a period when experimenters and radical thinkers viewed science as the harbinger of social innovation that would counter the virulent conservative backlash following the French Revolution. The collection will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars specialising in Romanticism, cultural history, philosophy and the history of science.

Автор: Prawer
Название: Frankenstein`s Island
ISBN: 0521110629 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521110624
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Professor Prawer`s new book documents Heinrich Heine`s lifelong involvement with England and the English. It shows him to have been a witty and intelligent observer of English men and women, institutions and politics; and to have extended his observation backwards into English history and literature of the past in a way that constantly welds the past to the present.

Автор: Heard
Название: Experimentation on the English Stage, 1695-1708
ISBN: 1138117625 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138117624
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Описание: At the beginning of the eighteenth century, British theatre saw a shift from what critics call `Restoration` to `sentimental` comedy. Focusing on the career of the Irish dramatist George Farquhar (1678-1707), this book argues that experimentation was the basis for this change.