Romanticism and the Sciences of Life
Guest edited by Hermione de Almeida
Table of Contents
Alan Bewell 5
Romanticism and Colonial Natural History
George H. Gilpin 35
William Blake and the World’s Body of Science
Tim Fulford 57
Conducting the Vital Fluid: The Politics and Poetics of Mesmerism in the 1790s
Stuart Peterfreund 79
Composing What May not Be “Sad Trash”: A Reconsideration of Mary Shelley’s Use of Paracelsus in Frankenstein
Eric G. Wilson 99
Thoreau, Crystallography, and the Science of the Transparent
Hermione de Almeida 119
Romanticism and the Triumph of Life Science: Prospects for Study