Imagination and Science in Romanticism
Autor Richard C. Shaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2021
2018 Winner, Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize, The International Conference on Romanticism
Richard C. Sha argues that scientific understandings of the imagination indelibly shaped literary Romanticism. Challenging the idea that the imagination found a home only on the side of the literary, as a mental vehicle for transcending the worldly materials of the sciences, Sha shows how imagination helped to operationalize both scientific and literary discovery. Essentially, the imagination forced writers to consider the difference between what was possible and impossible while thinking about how that difference could be known.
Sha examines how the imagination functioned within physics and chemistry in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, neurology in Blake's Vala, orThe Four Zoas, physiology in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, and obstetrics and embryology in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. He also demonstrates how the imagination was called upon to do aesthetic and scientific work using primary examples taken from the work of scientists and philosophers Davy, Dalton, Faraday, Priestley, Kant, Mary Somerville, Oersted, Marcet, Smellie, Swedenborg, Blumenbach, Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, and Von Baer, among others.
Sha concludes that both fields benefited from thinking about how imagination could cooperate with reason--but that this partnership was impossible unless imagination's penchant for fantasy could be contained.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781421439839
ISBN-10: 1421439832
Pagini: 344
Dimensiuni: 156 x 232 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10: 1421439832
Pagini: 344
Dimensiuni: 156 x 232 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Johns Hopkins University Press
Notă biografică
Richard C. Sha is a professor of literature at American University, where he is a member of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience. He is the author of Perverse Romanticism: Aesthetics and Sexuality in Britain, 1750-1832 and the coeditor of Romanticism and the Emotions.
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Sha concludes that both fields benefited from thinking about how imagination could cooperate with reason-but that this partnership was impossible unless imagination's penchant for fantasy could be contained.