Sweet science : romantic materialism and the new logics of life /

Sweet science : romantic materialism and the new logics of life /

Today we do not expect poems to carry scientifically valid information. But it was not always so. In 'Sweet Science', Amanda Jo Goldstein returns to the beginnings of the division of labor between literature and science to recover a tradition of Romantic life writing for which poetry was a...

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Main Author: Goldstein, Amanda Jo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Blake, William, > 1757-1827 > Criticism and interpretation.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, > 1749-1832 > Criticism and interpretation.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, > 1792-1822. > Masque of anarchy.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, > 1792-1822. > Triumph of life.
Lucretius Carus, Titus > Influence.
Masque of anarchy (Shelley, Percy Bysshe)
Triumph of life (Shelley, Percy Bysshe)
1800-1899
European literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Romanticism.
Materialism in literature.
Literature and science.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "sweet science"
  • Blake's mundane egg: epigenesis and milieux
  • Equivocal life: Goethe's journals on morphology
  • Tender semiosis: reading Goethe with Lucretius and Paul de Man
  • Growing old together: Lucretian materialism in Shelley's The triumph of life
  • A natural history of violence: allegory and atomism in Shelley's The mask of anarchy
  • Coda: old materialism, or romantic Marx.

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