TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Imagination and science in Romanticism
A1  - Sha, Richard C., kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5493960
AB  - "In Imagination and Science in Romanticism, Richard Sha challenges the idea that the imagination could only be applied to the literary and that its primary role was to transcend scientific concerns. Sha shows how the imagination functioned within physics and chemistry in Prometheus Unbound, neurology in Blake's Four Zoas, physiology in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, and obstetrics and embryology in Frankenstein. Sha also shows how the imagination was used in the scientific community, highlighting as primary examples the work of Davy, Faraday, Priestley, Kant, Mary Somerville, Oersted, Marcet, Swedenborg, Blumenbach, Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, and Von Baer, among others. Both fields profited from thinking about how the imagination could cooperate with reason and how hypotheses that had the possibility of actuality could benefit their work"--
SN  - 978-1-4214-2578-8 sidottu
SN  - 1-4214-2578-5 sidottu
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - English literature : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Science in literature.
KW  - Imagination in literature.
KW  - Romanticism : Great Britain.
KW  - Discoveries in science : History : 19th century.
KW  - Discoveries in science.
KW  - English literature.
KW  - Romanticism.
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Imagination : Motiv
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Romantik
KW  - Wissenschaft : Motiv
KW  - Great Britain.
ER  -