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The Romantic imagination and astronomy on all sides infinity / Dometa Wiegand Brothers, Assistant Professor, Iowa State University, USA.

Author/creator	Wiegand Brothers, Dometa
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Description	x, 203 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects	English poetry--19th century. --History and criticism. Literature and science--Great Britain. --History. --19th century. Astronomy in literature. Romanticism--Great Britain. Poetics--History. --19th century.

Series	Palgrave studies in the enlightenment, romanticism and the cultures of print
Contents	Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction 1.The First International Event and the First 'New' Planet: Expanding the Globe and Confronting Infinity 2.Barbauld: 'Embryo Systems and Unkindled Suns' 3.Coleridge: Herschel, and Cosmogonical Time 4.John Herschel and Mary Somerville: Astronomical Legacy and the Proprietary British Scientist 5.Astronomy and Empire: The Pathos of Demystification in Lamia and The Witch of Atlas 6.Rossetti: Reconciliation and Recursivity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.
Abstract	"The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy is the first book to reconstruct the history of the science of astronomy and its importance to the Romantic imagination in exploration and colonization by imperial England. It examines how the science of astronomy in exploration and discovery, from Edmund Halley and William Herschel to Captain Cook, changed the world by tying the 'pure' science of astronomy to the practical, commercial, and martial aims of navigation for the maritime nation of England. It demonstrates that the same 'pure' science of astronomy also fueled the Romantic poetic imagination, influencing the evolution of form and content of poetry -- from formation of the greater Romantic lyric of Barbauld and Coleridge, to the fantastic narratives of Keats and Shelley"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2015001202
ISBN	9781137474339 (hardback)

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