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Questioning nature : British women's scientific writing and literary originality, 1750-1830 / Melissa Bailes.

Author/creator Bailes, Melissa, 1979-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoCharlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
Descriptionvi, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Subject(s)
English literature--Women authors --History and criticism.
Natural history--Great Britain --Authorship.
Natural history literature--Great Britain.
Literature and science--Great Britain --History --18th century.
Literature and science--Great Britain --History --19th century.
Scientific literature--Great Britain --History --18th century.
Scientific literature--Great Britain --History --19th century.
Nature in literature.
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 235-251) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016053317
ISBN9780813939766 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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