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Literary Plagiarism and Scientific Originality in the "Trans-Atlantic Wilderness" of Goldsmith, Aikin, and Barbauld (2016)

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This essay enhances our understanding of Oliver Goldsmith’s poem “The Deserted Village” (1770) by attending to other works in his oeuvre, especially his History of the Earth and Animated Nature (1774). Goldsmith’s natural history particularly drew ideas from the naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, who famously portrayed Europe as a location of original biological forms, and the western hemisphere as departing from those origins, investing humans with the ability to alter themselves by altering their environment. Tracing similarities between calls for poetic novelty through scientific description in the works of Goldsmith and John Aikin, this essay displays how conceptions of biological, racial, and literary originality and degeneration also affected Anna Barbauld’s later repetition of Goldsmith’s themes in her poem, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812).

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Review Danielle Spratt (2016) Review of "Literary Plagiarism and Scientific Originality in the "Trans-Atlantic Wilderness" of Goldsmith, Aikin, and Barbauld". Journal of Literature and Science (pp. 56-57). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Mahood, M. M.
Bailes, Melissa
Duccio Tongiorgi
Nacinovich, Annalisa
Heydt-Stevenson, Jill
Sherrill, Matthew Robert
Concepts
Science and literature
Poetry and poetics
Natural history
Romanticism
Botany
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
Italy
Germany
England
France
Institutions
Arcadia
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