Book ID: CBB744232831

Romantics and the Era of Early Flight (2022)

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This book explores the significance of flight to Romantic literature. Although the Romantic movement and the age of ballooning coincided, there has been a curious and long-time tendency to forget that flight was not impossible during this period. This study details the importance of this new technology to Romantic authors, primarily English Romantic poets. It combines accounts of the exploits and experiences of early balloonists with references to Romantic texts, using ballooning lore to illuminate a range of Romantic writings. The balloonists are seen as not just supplying these writers with a new code of metaphors, but as colleagues engaged in similarly imaginative enterprises. The book uncovers an ‘aerial imagination’ shared by a large number of writers in the Romantic period that has its origins in the balloon adventures of the 1780s and following two decades. It will appeal to scholars and students of Romantic cultural history, as well as those interested in Romantic poetry and the history of early aeronautics.

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Authors & Contributors
Brant, Clare
Goldstein, Amanda Jo
Allard, James Robert
Arecco, Davide
Crouch, Tom D.
Holland, Jocelyn
Journals
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Science in Context
Ohio History Journal
Publishers
University of South Carolina
University of California, Berkeley
Cambridge University Press
Ashgate
Boydell Press
Cacucci Editore
Concepts
Poetry and poetics
Romanticism
Aeronautics; aviation
Balloons and ballooning
Science and literature
Technology
People
Blake, William
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Darwin, Erasmus
Keats, John
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Wordsworth, William
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
16th century
17th century
20th century, early
Enlightenment
Places
Great Britain
France
Germany
United States
England
Illinois (U.S.)
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