- Description
- 1 online resource (vi, 263 pages) : illustrations.
- Uniform Title
- Questioning nature (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Questioning nature (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-251) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: Questioning science, questioning originality -- To teach and to please: Anna Barbauld's original poetry and educational prose of natural history -- Hybrid Britons: West Indian colonial identity and Georgic originality in Maria Riddell's natural history -- The evolution of the plagiarist: natural history in Anna Seward's order of poetics -- Plagiarism and the poet-naturalist: Charlotte Smith's collective originality -- Translating cosmopolitanism: revolution in Helen Maria Williams's geopolitical nature -- Reconstructing origins: the psychologization of geological catastrophe in Mary Shelley's The last man -- Conclusion: Felicia Hemans, geological bodies, and the fate of originality.
- LCCN
- 2016053317
- OCLC
- ssj0001785275
- Author
Bailes, Melissa, 1979-
- Title
Questioning nature [electronic resource] : British women's scientific writing and literary originality, 1750-1830 / Melissa Bailes.
- Imprint
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-251) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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