Romantic Weather
Author: Arden Reed
Publisher: Brown Publishing Company
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 360
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Romantic Science
Author: Noah Heringman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0791486931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough "romantic science" may sound like a paradox, much of the romance surrounding modern science—the mad scientist, the intuitive genius, the utopian transformation of nature—originated in the Romantic period. Romantic Science traces the literary and cultural politics surrounding the formation of the modern scientific disciplines emerging from eighteenth-century natural history. Revealing how scientific concerns were literary concerns in the Romantic period, the contributors uncover the vital role that new discoveries in earth, plant, and animal sciences played in the period's literary culture. As Thomas Pennant put it in 1772, "Natural History is, at present, the favourite science over all Europe, and the progress which has been made in it will distinguish and characterise the eighteenth century in the annals of literature." As they examine the social and literary ramifications of a particular branch or object of natural history, the contributors to this volume historicize our present intellectual landscape by reimagining and redrawing the disciplinary boundaries between literature and science. Contributors include Alan Bewell, Rachel Crawford, Noah Heringman, Theresa M. Kelley, Amy Mae King, Lydia H. Liu, Anne K. Mellor, Stuart Peterfreund, and Catherine E. Ross.
PARADISE OF ROMANCE
Author: Priyanka Raj
Publisher: Creative Universe Publishing House
Published: 2020-02-14
Total Pages: 174
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Sometimes I am worried if I miss your breath-taking amour, O! darling take me, tour to your heart; Show me your mesmerizing amorousness.” Touching on the enticing themes of “Love Ever After”, inspired by the most romantic poet of mine, John Keats, it’s an apt gift you wanna bestow to your beloved. Paradise of Romance is an absolute ravishing, irresistible, romantic collection flavoured with the aromatic love verses; an epic journey to your fantasy love in the moonlight night and won’t let you escape from the rhythm love. Composed in stunning romantic flair to make you fall for love in all the seasons in the goodness of nature; in the most mystical way ever imagined. Sometimes it will let you burn in fiery love, makes you sensation about the evening romance, let you smell the fragrance of your lover and be cautious about not drowning in the blue romance; an addicted love verse with the touch of the cupid in the spring, summer, autumn and winter. Paradise of Romance is a truly endearing collection about the raw, rare and regal love in the Universe; engraved with Greek love mythology and gratified with cheers of red wine. It celebrates the majestic ceremony of our nuptial; the first feeling of passionate kiss; the bliss of new love; the blessed promises of love; and the exuberance of dream lover in the Paris.
Predicting the Weather
Author: Katharine Anderson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-11-15
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 0226019705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVictorian Britain, with its maritime economy and strong links between government and scientific enterprises, founded an office to collect meteorological statistics in 1854 in an effort to foster a modern science of the weather. But as the office turned to prediction rather than data collection, the fragile science became a public spectacle, with its forecasts open to daily scrutiny in the newspapers. And meteorology came to assume a pivotal role in debates about the responsibility of scientists and the authority of science. Studying meteorology as a means to examine the historical identity of prediction, Katharine Anderson offers here an engrossing account of forecasting that analyzes scientific practice and ideas about evidence, the organization of science in public life, and the articulation of scientific values in Victorian culture. In Predicting the Weather, Anderson grapples with fundamental questions about the function, intelligibility, and boundaries of scientific work while exposing the public expectations that shaped the practice of science during this period. A cogent analysis of the remarkable history of weather forecasting in Victorian Britain, Predicting the Weather will be essential reading for scholars interested in the public dimensions of science.
Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air
Author: Thomas H. Ford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-07-05
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1108424953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents an ecocritical study of poetic atmosphere, a concept first developed through Romanticism, particularly in the poetry of William Wordsworth.
Why We Love
Author: Helen Fisher
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2005-01-02
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1466829443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking exploration of our most complex and mysterious emotion Elation, mood swings, sleeplessness, and obsession—these are the tell-tale signs of someone in the throes of romantic passion. In this revealing new book, renowned anthropologist Helen Fisher explains why this experience—which cuts across time, geography, and gender—is a force as powerful as the need for food or sleep. Why We Love begins by presenting the results of a scientific study in which Fisher scanned the brains of people who had just fallen madly in love. She proves, at last, what researchers had only suspected: when you fall in love, primordial areas of the brain "light up" with increased blood flow, creating romantic passion. Fisher uses this new research to show exactly what you experience when you fall in love, why you choose one person rather than another, and how romantic love affects your sex drive and your feelings of attachment to a partner. She argues that all animals feel romantic attraction, that love at first sight comes out of nature, and that human romance evolved for crucial reasons of survival. Lastly, she offers concrete suggestions on how to control this ancient passion, and she optimistically explores the future of romantic love in our chaotic modern world. Provocative, enlightening, and persuasive, Why We Love offers radical new answers to the age-old question of what love is and thus provides invaluable new insights into keeping love alive.
Coleridge and Shelley
Author: Sally West
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-23
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1317164598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSally West's timely study is the first book-length exploration of Coleridge's influence on Shelley's poetic development. Beginning with a discussion of Shelley's views on Coleridge as a man and as a poet, West argues that there is a direct correlation between Shelley's desire for political and social transformation and the way in which he appropriates the language, imagery, and forms of Coleridge, often transforming their original meaning through subtle readjustments of context and emphasis. While she situates her work in relation to recent concepts of literary influence, West is focused less on the psychology of the poets than on the poetry itself. She explores how elements such as the development of imagery and the choice of poetic form, often learnt from earlier poets, are intimately related to poetic purpose. Thus on one level, her book explores how the second-generation Romantic poets reacted to the beliefs and ideals of the first, while on another it addresses the larger question of how poets become poets, by returning the work of one writer to the literary context from which it developed. Her book is essential reading for specialists in the Romantic period and for scholars interested in theories of poetic influence.
Loiterings in Europe; Or
Author: John W. Corson
Publisher:
Published: 1849
Total Pages: 328
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Author: Jayne Elizabeth Lewis
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-11-22
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0226476715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Air’s Appearance, Jayne Elizabeth Lewis enlists her readers in pursuit of the elusive concept of atmosphere in literary works. She shows how diverse conceptions of air in the eighteenth century converged in British fiction, producing the modern literary sense of atmosphere and moving novelists to explore the threshold between material and immaterial worlds. Air’s Appearance links the emergence of literary atmosphere to changing ideas about air and the earth’s atmosphere in natural philosophy, as well as to the era’s theories of the supernatural and fascination with social manners—or, as they are now known, “airs.” Lewis thus offers a striking new interpretation of several standard features of the Enlightenment—the scientific revolution, the decline of magic, character-based sociability, and the rise of the novel—that considers them in terms of the romance of air that permeates and connects them. As it explores key episodes in the history of natural philosophy and in major literary works like Paradise Lost, “The Rape of the Lock,” Robinson Crusoe, and The Mysteries of Udolpho, this book promises to change the atmosphere of eighteenth-century studies and the history of the novel.
How Young Ladies Became Girls
Author: Jane H. Hunter
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 0300092636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere they competed for grades and honor directly against male classmates. Before and after school they joined a public world beyond adult supervision - strolling city streets, flagging down male friends, visiting soda foundations." "Over the long term, their school experiences as "girls" foreshadowed both the turn-of-the-century emergence of the independent "New Women" and the birth of adolescence itself."--BOOK JACKET.
