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Creating Romanticism

Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s

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  1. Sharon Ruston

    1. University of Salford, UK

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Sharon Ruston
    Pages 1-27

  3. Mary Wollstonecraft and Nature

    • Sharon Ruston
    Pages 28-62

  4. William Godwin and the Imagination

    • Sharon Ruston
    Pages 63-96

  5. Romantic Creation

    • Sharon Ruston
    Pages 97-131

  6. Humphry Davy and the Sublime

    • Sharon Ruston
    Pages 132-174

  7. Conclusion

    • Sharon Ruston
    Pages 175-177

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 178-218
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This book argues that the term 'Romanticism' should be more culturally-inclusive, recognizing the importance of scientific and medical ideas that helped shape some of the key concepts of the period, such as natural rights, the creative imagination and the sublime.

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"...a fascinating and thoroughly convincing call to re-examine not just "Romanticism and Science" but "Romanticism" itself. If Ruston is correct about the deliberate use of scientific and medical ideas in some of the period's foundational literary texts - and I have every confidence that she is - then Creating Romanticism should find an audience well beyond those of us interested in the science of the day and become required reading for all students of the period." James Robert Allard, Keats-Shelley Journal

"...offers a lively, de-centred view of British Romanticism, considered from the multiple vantage points provided by the complex structure of its intellectual and social networks". Noah Heringman, The Keats-Shelly Review

'Ruston's book offers a valuable addition to the long history of research into science in the Romantic era: its strength resides particularly in its grasp of the political sub-texts of the interpretation of scientific ideas in the period, as wellas in the accounts of little-discussed texts, and in the importance it rightly accords to Davy.' Edward Larrissy, The BARS Review

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Salford, UK

    Sharon Ruston

About the author

Sharon Ruston is Chair in Romanticism at Lancaster University, UK. She has published Shelley and Vitality (2005), Romanticism: An Introduction (2007), and has edited The Influence and Anxiety of the British Romantics: Spectres of Romanticism (1999), Literature and Science (2008) and co-edited Teaching Romanticism (2010).

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