The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy
On All Sides Infinity
Authors: Wiegand Brothers, Dometa
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- About this book
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In the nineteenth century the beauty of the night sky is the source of both imaginative wonder in poetry and political and commercial power through navigation. The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy examines the impact of astronomical discovery and imperial exploration on poets including Barbauld, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Rossetti.
- About the authors
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Dometa Brothers is an Assistant Professor of British Literature at Iowa State University. She has published articles and book chapters on Romantic poetry and the history of science and mathematics, ecosemiotics, and travel writing.
- Reviews
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“Informative and engaging, written throughout in a lucid style, and persuasive in its recovery of the contours of astronomical debate in the period, this book undoubtedly adds to our understanding of the place of astronomy in the cultural history of the romantic period and of the processes by which the modern scientific disciplines began to develop out of eighteenth-century ‘natural philosophy.’” (Cian Duffy, Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 48 (1), February, 2017)
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-18
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The First International Event and the First “New” Planet: Expanding the Globe and Confronting Infinity
Pages 19-37
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Barbauld: “Embryo Systems and Unkindled Suns”
Pages 38-49
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Coleridge: Herschel and Cosmogonical Time
Pages 50-74
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John Herschel and Mary Somerville: Astronomical Legacy and the Proprietary British Scientist
Pages 75-88
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy
- Book Subtitle
- On All Sides Infinity
- Authors
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- Dometa Wiegand Brothers
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-47434-6
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137474346
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-47433-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-50155-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 203
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