Nature and the new science in England, 1665-1726 /
Author / Creator: | Van Renen, Denys, author. |
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Imprint: | [Liverpool] : Liverpool University Press, [2018] |
Description: | xi, 254 pages ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 0435-2866 ; 2018:08 Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2018:08. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11693751 |
Summary: | When scholars of cultural studies consider representations of the land by British writers, the Romantic poets continue to dominate the enquiry, as though the period right before the intensification of the Industrial Revolution offers readers one last glimpse of untarnished nature. Denys Van Renen instead examines the British authors writing in the decades following the Restoration of Charles II, writers whose literary works re-animate and re-embody the land as a site of dynamic interactions, and, through this, reveal how various cultural systems and ecologies shape notions of self and national identity. |
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Item Description: | Place of publication taken from publisher's website. "Published by Liverpool University Press on behalf of ... Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford"--title page verso. |
Physical Description: | xi, 254 pages ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-249) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781786941374 1786941376 |
ISSN: | 0435-2866 ; |