Literature, science and exploration in the Romantic era bodies of knowledge / Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee and Peter J. Kitson.

SeriesCambridge studies in Romanticism ; 60
Cambridge studies in Romanticism 60.
Contents Bodies of knowledge -- I: Exploration, science and literature -- Sir Joseph Banks and his networks -- Tahiti in London: London in Tahiti: tools of power -- Indian flowers and Romantic orientalism -- Mental travellers: banks, African exploration and the Romantic imagination -- Banks, Bligh and the breadfruit: slave plantations, tropical islands and the rhetoric of Romanticism -- Exploration, headhunting and race theory: the skull beneath the skin -- Theories of terrestrial magnetism and the search for the poles -- II: British science and literature in the context of empire -- 'Man electrified man': Romantic revolution and the legacy of Benjamin Franklin -- The beast within: vaccination, Romanticism and the Jenneration of disease -- Britain's little black boys and the technologies of benevolence.
Local noteLittle-347805--305131054525Y
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 274-312) and index.
LCCN 2003063280
ISBN0521829194
ISBN9780521829199

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