Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the sciences of life / edited by Nicholas Roe.

Other author Roe, Nicholas.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Descriptionxvi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834--Knowledge. --Science.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834--views on science.
Literature and science--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Life sciences--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Science in literature.

Contents Myths of community in the Lyrical ballads 1798-1998: the commonwealth and the constitution / Elinor Shaffer -- The political sciences of life: from American pantisocracy to British romanticism / Kenneth R. Johnston -- Jews, jubilee, and Harringtonianism in Coleridge and Maria Edgeworth: republican conversions / Susan Manly -- Coleridge and 'the Ouran utang hypothesis': romantic theories of race / Peter J. Kitson -- Theorizing Golgotha: Coleridge, race theory, and the skull beneath the skin / Tim Fulford -- 'Kubla Khan' and the theory of the earth / James C. McKusick -- Coleridge's 'abstruse researches' / Neil Vickers -- Space for speculation: Coleridge, Barbauld, and the poetics of Priestley / Jane Stabler -- The rime of the ancient mariner and Frankenstein / Beth Lau -- Coleridge's 'Hymn before sun-rise' and the voice not heard / Angela Esterhammer -- Coleridge and the end of autonomy / Seamus Perry -- Historicist readings of The rime of the ancient mariner / Raimonda Modiano -- Coleridge's secret ministry: historical reading and editorial theory / Kelvin Everest -- How shall we write the life of Coleridge? / John Beer.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2001024732
ISBN0198187238