Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers write by Valerie Purton. This book was released on 2014-12-01. Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science’ is an edited collection of essays from leading authorities in the field of Victorian literature and science, including Gillian Beer and George Levine. Darwin, Tennyson, Huxley, Ruskin, Richard Owen, Meredith, Wilde and other major writers are discussed, as established scholars in this area explore the interaction between Victorian literary and scientific figures which helped build the intellectual climate of twenty-first century debates.
The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science
The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science write by John Holmes. This book was released on 2017-05-18. The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date foundation for research in this field. In intellectual, material and social terms, the transformation undergone by Western culture over the period was unprecedented. Many of these changes were grounded in the growth of science. Yet science was not a cultural monolith then any more than it is now, and its development was shaped by competing world views. To cover the full range of literary engagements with science in the nineteenth century, this companion consists of twenty-seven chapters by experts in the field, which explore crucial social and intellectual contexts for the interactions between literature and science, how science affected different genres of writing, and the importance of individual scientific disciplines and concepts within literary culture. Each chapter has its own extensive bibliography. The volume as a whole is rounded out with a synoptic introduction by the editors and an afterword by the eminent historian of nineteenth-century science Bernard Lightman.
Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alfred Tennyson write by Laurence W. Mazzeno. This book was released on 2020-09-15. Alfred Tennyson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alfred Tennyson was a poet all his life, writing more than a thousand works in virtually every poetic genre. Considered by his Victorian contemporaries the pre-eminent poet of the age, he has become a canonical figure who is widely read and studied today. Consequently, his poems appear on the syllabi of both survey courses in Victorian literature as well as upper-division and graduate-level topics courses that cover Victorian studies or address subjects such as environmental studies, religion, elegiac poetry, and Arthurian literature. This companion makes Tennyson's poetry accessible to contemporary readers by identifying some of the formal elements of the poems, highlighting their relevance to Tennyson's Victorian contemporaries, and explaining their enduring appeal and value. Entries in the companion, organized alphabetically, provide essential details about Tennyson's most anthologized poems, offer suggestions for reading and interpretation, and elucidate unfamiliar historical and literary allusions. Additional entries, a biography of Tennyson, and a selected bibliography of recent criticism offer information about the people, places, events, and issues that influenced Tennyson or were important to him and his contemporaries.
Tennyson and Geology
Tennyson and Geology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tennyson and Geology write by Michelle Geric. This book was released on 2017-12-13. Tennyson and Geology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers new interpretations of Tennyson’s major poems along-side contemporary geology, and specifically Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology (1830-3). Employing various approaches – from close readings of both the poetic and geological texts, historical contextualisation and the application of Bakhtin’s concept of dialogism – the book demonstrates not only the significance of geology for Tennyson’s poetry, but the vital import of Tennyson’s poetics in explicating the implications of geology for the nineteenth century and beyond. Gender ideologies in The Princess (1847) are read via High Miller’s geology, while the writings of Lyell and other contemporary geologist, comparative anatomists and language theorists are examined along-side In Memoriam (1851) and Maud (1855). The book argues that Tennyson’s experimentation with Lyell’s geology produced a remarkable ‘uniformitarian’ poetics that is best understood via Bakhtinian theory; a poetics that reveals the seminal role methodologies in geology played in the development of divisions between science and culture, and that also, quite profoundly, anticipates the crisis in language later associated with the linguistic turn of the twentieth century.
Autobiologies
Autobiologies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Autobiologies write by Alexis Harley. This book was released on 2014-12-18. Autobiologies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What does heredity mean for identity? What role does the individual have in shaping a personal or a human history? What is the ethical status of seemingly biologically determined behaviours? What does individual death mean in the light of species extinction? Autobiologies explores the importance of such questions in Victorian life writing. Analysing memoirs, diaries, letters, and natural histories Alexis Harley demonstrates how theories of natural selection shaped nineteenth-century autobiographical practices and refashioned the human subject—and also how the lived experience of the individual theorist simultaneously impacted their biological formulations.
