Bailes, Melissa (Author)
In the mid-eighteenth century, many British authors and literary critics anxiously claimed that poetry was in crisis. These writers complained that modern poets plagiarized classical authors as well as one another, asserted that no new subjects for verse remained, and feared poetry's complete exhaustion. Questioning Nature explores how major women writers of the era―including Mary Shelley, Anna Barbauld, and Charlotte Smith―turned in response to developing disciplines of natural history such as botany, zoology, and geology. Recognizing the sociological implications of inquiries in the natural sciences, these authors renovated notions of originality through natural history while engaging with questions of the day. Classifications, hierarchies, and definitions inherent in natural history were appropriated into discussions of gender, race, and nation. Further, their concerns with authorship, authority, and novelty led them to experiment with textual hybridities and collaborative modes of originality that competed with conventional ideas of solitary genius.Exploring these authors and their work, Questioning Nature explains how these women writers' imaginative scientific writing unveiled a new genealogy for Romantic originality, both shaping the literary canon and ultimately leading to their exclusion from it.
...MoreReview Anna K. Sagal (2019) Review of "Questioning Nature: British Women's Scientific Writing and Literary Originality, 1750-1830". Archives of Natural History (pp. 175-176).
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George, Sam;
(2005)
From Modest Shoot to Forward Plant: Botany and the Cultivation of the FemaleMind in Eighteenth-Century Literature
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Kelley, Theresa M.;
(2012)
Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture
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Heringman, Noah;
(2009)
“Very Vain Is Science' Proudest Boast”: The Resistance To Geological Theory in Early Nineteenth-Century England
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Page, Judith W;
Smith, Elise Lawton;
(2011)
Women, Literature, and the Domesticated Landscape: England's Disciples of Flora, 1780--1870
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Randall, Robert;
(2008)
Bath Naturalists: Apothecary to Zoologist
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Melissa Bailes;
(2016)
Literary Plagiarism and Scientific Originality in the "Trans-Atlantic Wilderness" of Goldsmith, Aikin, and Barbauld
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Bertonèche, Caroline;
(2011)
Women of Science Fiction: Romantic Mythologies and Female Emancipation from John Keats to Dan Simmons
(/isis/citation/CBB001221555/)
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Test, Edward McLean;
(2008)
Consuming the Americas: New World Flora and Fauna in English Literature, 1580--1620
(/isis/citation/CBB001561230/)
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Page, Michael R.;
(2012)
The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells: Science, Evolution, and Ecology
(/isis/citation/CBB001320100/)
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Holmes, Richard;
(2008)
The Age of Wonder
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Dahlia Porter;
(2018)
Science, Form, and the Problem of Induction in British Romanticism
(/isis/citation/CBB734911585/)
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Bailes, Melissa;
(2009)
The Evolution of the Plagiarist: Natural History in Anna Seward's Order of Poetics
(/isis/citation/CBB001030343/)
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Parsons, Christopher M.;
Murphy, Kathleen S.;
(2012)
Ecosystems under Sail: Specimen Transport in the Eighteenth-Century French and British Atlantics
(/isis/citation/CBB001200577/)
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Samantha Evans;
(2017)
Insects and Angels
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Günergun, Feza;
(1998)
Osmanli Bilimi Arastirmalari II
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Mollendorf, Miranda Andrea;
(2013)
The World in a Book: Robert John Thornton's “Temple of Flora” (1797--1812)
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Hoare, Philip;
(2013)
Cetology: How Science Inspired Moby-Dick
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Dawn Kaczmar;
(2021)
Disability and Race in British Literature, 1580-1833
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Fiedler, Horst;
Leitner, Ulrike;
(2000)
Alexander von Humboldts Schriften: Bibliographie der selbständig erschienenen Werke
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Caleb, Amanda Mordavsky;
(2007)
(Re)Creating Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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