Examining novels, studies on plant hybridization, treatises on animal breeding, and collections of anatomical monstrosities, <span style=""font-style:italic;"">Origins Matter delineates how romantic authors imagined the ramifications of emerging notions of heredity for the conce…
It has always been thought difficult, if not impossible, to define what the philosophy of Carlyle was. Ever since the publication of Sartor Resartus in 1833-1834, the view that Carlyle had a theistic conception of the universe has been defended as well as opposed. At a time, the…
En son sens le plus large, le romantisme est une crise de la conscience européenne au moment du basculement dans le monde moderne. Contre la raison et les règles du classicisme, contre un certain bon goût à la française aussi, se produisit une révolte esthétique qui remit au pre…
"Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) and her daughter Mary Shelley (1797-1851) have each been the subject of numerous biographies by top tier writers, yet no author has ever examined their lives in tandem. Perhaps this is because these two amazing women never knew each other--Wollst…
