Creating Romanticism : case studies in the literature, science and medicine of the 1790s / Sharon Ruston, Chair in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, University of Salford, UK
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Mary Wollstonecraft and nature -- William Godwin and the imagination -- Romantic creation -- Humphry Davy and the sublime
Summary
This book argues that the term 'Romanticism' should bemore culturally-inclusive, recognizing the importance of scientific and medicalideas that helped shape some of the key concepts of the period, such as naturalrights, the creative imagination and the sublime