Book ID: CBB000110482

Romantic Turbulence: Chaos, Ecology, and American Space (2000)

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Wilson, Eric G. (Author)


St. Martin's Press


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: xxii + 169 pp., index
Language: English

Description Discusses the impact of Romantic ideas of space and turbulence (especially those derived from Goethe's scientific notions) on the American transcendentalist writers.


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Authors & Contributors
Walls, Laura Dassow
Sivils, Matthew Wynn
Cornejo, Carlos
Badia, Lynn Ann
Thompson, Paul B.
Smith, Gayle L.
Journals
Nineteenth-Century Contexts
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
History of the Human Sciences
Ethics, Place and Environment
ATQ
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Ashgate
University of Minnesota
Texas Tech University
Texas A and M University
Vanderbilt University Press
Concepts
Romanticism
Philosophy
Science and literature
Transcendentalism
Nature
Natural history
People
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Thoreau, Henry David
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Muir, John
Melville, Herman
Jefferson, Thomas
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
17th century
Places
United States
Americas
Pacific Ocean
Germany
Soviet Union
Great Britain
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