Skip to main navigation Skip to main content
info(at)avldigital.remove-this.de
Deutsch English
Narrow Search
Search narrowed by
Last searches

Results for *

Displaying results 1 to 2 of 2.

  1. The Romantic imagination and astronomy
    on all sides infinity
    Author: Wiegand Brothers, Dometa
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire

    "The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy is the first book to reconstruct the history of the science of astronomy and its importance to the Romantic imagination in exploration and colonization by imperial England. It examines how the science of... more

    Location:
    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    "The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy is the first book to reconstruct the history of the science of astronomy and its importance to the Romantic imagination in exploration and colonization by imperial England. It examines how the science of astronomy in exploration and discovery, from Edmund Halley and William Herschel to Captain Cook, changed the world by tying the 'pure' science of astronomy to the practical, commercial, and martial aims of navigation for the maritime nation of England. It demonstrates that the same 'pure' science of astronomy also fueled the Romantic poetic imagination, influencing the evolution of form and content of poetry -- from formation of the greater Romantic lyric of Barbauld and Coleridge, to the fantastic narratives of Keats and Shelley"--

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1137474335; 9781137474339
    RVK Categories: HL 1101
    Edition: First published
    Series: Palgrave studies in the enlightenment, romanticism and the cultures of print
    Subjects: English poetry; Literature and science; Astronomy in literature; Romanticism; Poetics
    Scope: X, 203 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 189-197 und Index

    Machine generated contents note:AcknowledgementsIntroduction1.The First International Event and the First 'New' Planet: Expanding the Globe and Confronting Infinity 2.Barbauld: 'Embryo Systems and Unkindled Suns'3.Coleridge: Herschel, and Cosmogonical Time4.John Herschel and Mary Somerville: Astronomical Legacy and the Proprietary British Scientist5.Astronomy and Empire: The Pathos of Demystification in Lamia and The Witch of Atlas6.Rossetti: Reconciliation and RecursivityConclusionBibliographyIndex.
  2. The Romantic imagination and astronomy
    on all sides infinity
    Author: Wiegand Brothers, Dometa
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire

    "The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy is the first book to reconstruct the history of the science of astronomy and its importance to the Romantic imagination in exploration and colonization by imperial England. It examines how the science of... more

    Location:
    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    Signature:
    1 A 946884
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    Signature:
    2015 A 9078
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
    Signature:
    Jo 999
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

    Location:
    Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
    Signature:
    ANG:HC:372:Wie::2015
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Klassik Stiftung Weimar / Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek
    Signature:
    HL 1101 W645
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    "The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy is the first book to reconstruct the history of the science of astronomy and its importance to the Romantic imagination in exploration and colonization by imperial England. It examines how the science of astronomy in exploration and discovery, from Edmund Halley and William Herschel to Captain Cook, changed the world by tying the 'pure' science of astronomy to the practical, commercial, and martial aims of navigation for the maritime nation of England. It demonstrates that the same 'pure' science of astronomy also fueled the Romantic poetic imagination, influencing the evolution of form and content of poetry -- from formation of the greater Romantic lyric of Barbauld and Coleridge, to the fantastic narratives of Keats and Shelley"--

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1137474335; 9781137474339
    RVK Categories: HL 1101
    Edition: First published
    Series: Palgrave studies in the enlightenment, romanticism and the cultures of print
    Subjects: English poetry; Literature and science; Astronomy in literature; Romanticism; Poetics
    Scope: X, 203 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 189-197 und Index

    Machine generated contents note:AcknowledgementsIntroduction1.The First International Event and the First 'New' Planet: Expanding the Globe and Confronting Infinity 2.Barbauld: 'Embryo Systems and Unkindled Suns'3.Coleridge: Herschel, and Cosmogonical Time4.John Herschel and Mary Somerville: Astronomical Legacy and the Proprietary British Scientist5.Astronomy and Empire: The Pathos of Demystification in Lamia and The Witch of Atlas6.Rossetti: Reconciliation and RecursivityConclusionBibliographyIndex.