The Loves of Plants and Animals: Romantic Science and the Pleasures of Nature
[first published in "Romanticism and Ecology," Romantic Circles Praxis Series (November 2001) [O]ur intellectual sympathies [rest] with . . . the miseries, or with the joys, of our fellow creatures. -...
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Amphibious Thinking The Anxiety of Species: Toward a Romantic Natural History Defining “Life”and “Death” Global Exploration and New Forms of Nature Erasmus Darwin and the Frankenstein Mistake...
View ArticleA Romantic Natural History Timeline: 1750-1859
1750: Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”; Johann Tobias Mayer, Map of the Moon 1751: Linnaeus, Philosophia Botanica 1752: Thomas Chatterton b. (d.1770); Benjamin Franklin invents...
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Temple of Nature (1803)
Frontispiece from Erasmus Darwin’s The Temple of Nature (1803). The image suggests the goddess of poetry pulling aside the veil to reveal the many-breasted Artemis of Ephesus, goddess of wild...
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Geologist-Poets
Once the hammers of geologists began turning up startlingly clear fossils like the one shown here, it became much harder for scientists, naturalists, and the general public to sustain the idea of a...
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In the Poetry Lab with Dr. Frankenstein
Science and literature. They don’t have anything to do with each other, do they. Science: that’s heavyweight; that’s for rationalists, clear thinkers with a graphing calculator and the scientific...
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Bibliography
[Click to go to each letter of the alphabet] a-b-c-d-e-f-g-h-i-j-k-l-m-n-o-p-q-r-s-t-u-v-w-x-y-z . . . . . .A Romantic Natural History Bibliography (Updated: 323 entries as of 01/2012) A...
View ArticleBaird’s Report to Dickinson College as Curator of Museum (1846)
Baird reported annually to the College on the status of the museum’s growing collection. His 1846 report lists recent acquisitions and looks forward to the day when Baird’s own remarkable bird...
View ArticleB. Ashton Nichols
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS: As Author: Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), part of the Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters series. Series...
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Reviews of works by Ashton Nichols
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 Technology NEWS WATCH; Views of Nature Before Darwin Jumped Into the Debate By SHELLY FREIERMAN Published: September 21, 2000, Thursday A Romantic Natural History,...
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