Sweet science : romantic materialism and the new logics of life / Amanda Jo Goldstein.
Sweet science : romantic materialism and the new logics of life / Amanda Jo Goldstein.
Sweet science : romantic materialism and the new logics of life / Amanda Jo Goldstein.
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
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G 2017/3407
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English
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viii, 330 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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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 vi...
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
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Illinois
Date Published
2017.
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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 privileged technique of empirical inquiry. Goldstein puts a...
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Sweet science : romantic materialism and the new logics of life / Amanda Jo Goldstein.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2017/3407
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74VKVXZepRJd
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9780226484709
9780226458441 hardcover ; alkaline paper
022645844X hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780226484709 paperback
022648470X paperback
022648470X
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809.034
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991024113818402626
