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German Romanticism and Science: The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter

German Romanticism and Science: The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter

Holland, Jocelyn

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0415654963
ISBN13: 9780415654968
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 27 2012
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Situated at the intersection of literature and science, Holland's study draws upon a diverse corpus of literary and scientific texts which testify to a cultural fascination with procreation around 1800. Through readings which range from Goethe's writing on metamorphosis to Novalis's aphorisms and novels and Ritter's Fragments from the Estate of a Young Physicist, Holland proposes that each author contributes to a scientifically-informed poetics of procreation. Rather than subscribing to a single biological theory (such as epigenesis or preformation), these authors take their inspiration from a wide inventory of procreative motifs and imagery.

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