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_____________. General Views on the Application of Galvanism to Medical Purposes; principally in cases of suspended animation. London: J. Callow, 1819.

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Audubon, John James. Ornithological Biography; or, an account of the habits of the birds of the United Sattes of America. Edinburgh: Adam Black, 1831.

__________________. The Original Water-Color Paintings by John James Audubon for the Birds of America. New York: American Heritage, 1966.

 


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Baine, Rodney M. The Scattered Portions: William Blake’s Biological Symbolism. Athens, Ga.: [author], 1986.

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Barber, L. The Heyday of Natural History: 1820-1870. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.

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Bartram, John. Observations on the inhabitants, Climate, soil, rivers, productions worthy of notice, made by John Bartram in his travels from Pennsylvania to Onondaga, Oswego, and the Lake Ontario in Canada. London: J. Whiston & B. White, 1751.

___________. A Description of East Florida with a Journal kept by John Bartram, of Philadelphia, Botanist to His Majesty for the Floridas. London, 1766.

Bartram, William. The Travels of William Bartram (1791). New York, 1955.

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____________. The Song of the Earth. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2000.

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______________.History of British Birds. 2 vols. Newcastle: Hodgson, 1797.

______________.The New Museum of Natural History. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1810.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Anima Poetae. Ed. E. H. Coleridge. London: Heinemann, 1895.

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Collins, Samuel. Paradise retriev’d: plainly and fully demonstrating the most beautiful, durable and beneficial method of managing and improving fruit-trees. London: J. Collins, 1717.

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Cook, James and James King. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1776-80). Dublin: Chamberlaine, 1784.

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__________. The Complete Herbal. London, 1847.

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Darwin, Charles. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H. M. S. “Beagle” Round the World. London: John Murray, 1890 [1845]: Henry Colburn, 1839.

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______________. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. London: John Murray, 1859.

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Darwin, Erasmus. The Botanic Garden, containing The Loves of Plants, a Poem with Philosophical Notes. London: Litchfield, 1789.

_____________. The Botanic Garden: A Poem in Two Parts. London: J. Johnson, 1791-94.

_____________. Zoonomia, or the Laws of Organic Life. 2 vols. London: J. Johnson, 1794-96.

_____________. The Temple of Nature: or the Origin of Society. London: J. Johnson, 1803.

_____________. The Letters of Erasmus Darwin. Ed. Desmond King-Hele. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1981.

Darwin, Robert Waring. Principia Botanica; or, a Concise and Easy Introduction to the Sexual Botany of Linnaeus. Newark: M. Hage, 1810.

Davy, Sir Humphry. “An Essay on the Generation of Phosoxygen (Oxygen Gas) and on the Causes of Colours of Organic Beings,” in Contributions to Physical and Medical Knowledge. Coll. Thomas Beddoes. Bristol: Biggs and Cottle, 1799.

________________.A Discourse, introductory to a course of lectures on Chemistry, delivered in the Theatre of the Royal Insitution, 21 January 1802. London: J. Johnson, 1802.

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[Davy, Sir Humphry] Salmonia: or days of fly fishing. By an Angler. London: John Murray, 1828.

De Almeida, Hermione. Romantic Medicine and John Keats. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991.

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Drummond, William Hamilton. The Giant’s Causeway: A Poem. Belfast, 1811.

_________________________. The Rights of Animals, and Man’s Obligation to Treat them with Humanity. London: J. Mardon, 1838.

 


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Eamon, William. Science and the Secrets of Nature. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994.

Easterlin, Nancy. A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation. Baltimore: John Hopkins UP, 2012

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Ellis, John. “A botanical description of the Dionaea muscipula, or Venus’s fly trap. A newly-discovered sensitive plant: in a letter to Sir Charles Linnaeus,” in Directions for bringing over seeds and plants from the East-Indies and other distant countries. London: L. Davis, 1770), pp. 35-41.

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Elman, Robert. First in the Field. New York: Mason Charter, 1977.

 


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Farley, John. The Spontaneous Generation Controversy from Descartes to Oparin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1974.

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Fontana, Felix. Treatise on the Venom of the Viper; on the American poisons; and on the Cherry Laurel; and some other Vegetable Poisons, to which are annexed, observations on the primitive structure of the animal body; different experiments on the reproduction of the nerves; and a description of a new canal of the eye. Trans. Joseph Skinner. 2 vols. London: J. Murray, 1807 [Florence, 1781].

Fortey, Richard. Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billions Years of Life on Earth. New York: Random House, 1997.

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Frick, G. F. And R. P. Stearns. Mark Catesby: the Colonial Audubon. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1961.

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Fulford, Tim. “Coleridge, Darwin, Linnaeus: The Sexual Politics of Botany,” The Wordsworth Circle 28:3 (1997): 124-30.

___________ and Peter J. Kitson, eds., Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 1780-1830. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.

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Galvani, Luigi. Commenatry on the effects of electricity on muscular motion. With a facsimile of De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius [1791]. Trans. Margaret G. Foley. Norwalk, Conn.: Burndy Library, 1953.

Garden, Alexander. “An account of the Gymnotus electricus or electrical eel.” Philosophical Transactions, 65 (1775), 102-110.

Gasking, Elizabeth B. Investigations into Generation, 1651-1828. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1967.

Gaull, Marilyn. “Natural History and Its Illusion,” in English Romanticism: The Human Context. New York: Norton, 1988.

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Gemmil, James Fairlie. Natural History in the Poetry of Robert Burns. Glasgow: N. Adshead, 1928.

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Grabo, Carl. A Newton Among Poets: Shelley’s Use of Science. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1930.

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Haley, William. Ballads, founded on anecdotes relating to animals, with prints designed and engraved by Wm. Blake. London: R. Phillips, 1805.

Hanley, Wayne. Natural History in America: From Mark Catesby to Rachel Carson. New York: Quadrangle, 1977.

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Heringman, Noah. Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2004.

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Hoage, R. J. and William A. Deiss, eds. New Worlds, New Animals: From Menagerie to Zoological Park in the Nineteenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1996.

Holmes, Richard. The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science. New York: Pantheon, 2009.

Hooke, R. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses, with Observations and Inquiries thereupon. London, 1665.

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Hunter, John. “Experiments on animals and vegetables, with respect to the power of producing heat,” Philosophical Transactions, 65 (1775), 446-58.

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Hutton, J. Theory of the Earth; or an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution, and restoration of land upon the globe. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1788) 1:209-304.

________. Theory of the Earth, with Proofs and Illustrations. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1795.

 


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Irmscher, Christoph. A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art History. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2009.

________________. The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartram to William James. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1999.

 


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Jardine, Nicholas and J. A. Secord and E. C. Spary. Cultures of Natural History. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.

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Jenner, Edward. A Flora of Tunbridge Wells. Tunbridge Wells: J. Colbran, 1845.

Jones, Christine Kenyon. Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic Period Writing. Hampshire: Ashgate, 2001.

____________________. “‘When this world shall be former’: Catastrophism as Imaginative Theory for the Younger Romantics.” Romanticsim on the Net 24 (November 2001): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/24jones.html>

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Kalm, Peter. Travels in North America, ed. Carl Adolph Benson. New York, 1937.

Kastner, Joseph. A Species of Eternity. New York: Knopf, 1977.

Keats, John. The Complete Poems. Ed. Miriam Allott. New York: Longman, 1970.

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Kelley, Theresa M. Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture. Baltimore: John Hopkins UP, 2012.

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Koyre, Alexandre. From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1957.

Kroeber, Karl. Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind. New York: Columbia UP, 1994.

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Lamarck, J. B. La Flore Francais, Paris, 1778.

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Lashmet, David. “Unfurling the Worm: Insecto-theology in William Blake’s Thel.” Hypertexts and Textual Studies, Graduate Conference on Romanticism. Emory U, 1996. <http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/panels/1A/D.Lashmet.html>

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_______________. Lapland Journey (Lachesis Lapponica), trans. Carl Troilius, ed. James Edward Smith. London, 1792.

_______________. A Selection of the Correspondence of Linnaeus and Other Naturalists, ed. James Edward Smith. London, 1821.

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Loudon, Jane Webb. The Entertaining Naturalist. London: Henry Bohn, 1843.

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_______. Life, Letters, and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell. New York: AMS, 1881.

 


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Mabey, Richard, ed. The Oxford Book of Nature Writing. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995.

Macgillivray, William. A History of British Birds. London: Scott, Webster and Geary, 1837.

Makdisi, Saree. Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.

Malamud, Randy. Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity. New York: New York UP, 1998.

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Manual of the Practical Naturalist. Boston: Lilly and Wait, 1831.

Marshall, Tim. Murdering to Dissect: Grave-robbing, Frankenstein and the Anatomy Literature. Machester: Manchester UP, 1995.

Martyn, William Frederic. A New Dictionary of Natural History; or, Compleat Universal Display of Animated Nature with accurate representations of the most curious and beautiful animals. 2 vols. London: Harrison, 1785.

McCarthy, William and Elizabeth Kraft, eds. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1994.

McIntyre, Clara Frances. Ann Radcliffe in Relation to Her Time. New Haven: Yale UP, 1920.

McKusick, James C. “Coleridge and the Economy of Nature,” Studies in Romanticism 35 (1996): 375-90.

Meisel, Max. A Bibliography of American Natural History: The Pioneer Century, 1769-1865. 3 vols. Brooklyn: Premier, 1924-29.

Miles, Robert. Ann Radcliffe: The Great Enchantress. New York: Manchester UP, 1995.

Miller, John. An Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus. London: Miller, 1799.

Morton, Timothy. The Ecological Thought. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2010.

______________. Ecology Without Natue: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2007.

______________. The Poetics of Spice. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.

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______________. Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.

Murchison, R. I. The Silurian System. London, 1839.

Murray, E. B. Ann Radcliffe. New York: Twayne, 1972.

Murray, John A., editor. Wild Africa: Three Centuries of Nature Writing from Africa. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

 


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Nash, Roderick. “The Cultural Significance of the American Wilderness,” in Wilderness and the Quality of Life, ed. Maxine McCloskey and James P. Gilligan. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1969: 66-73.

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Nichols, Ashton. “The Anxiety of Species: Toward a Romantic Natural History,” The Wordsworth Circle 28.3 (1997): 130-36.

_____________. Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

_____________. “An Empire of Exotic Nature: William Blake’s Botanic and Zoomorphic Imagery,” The Reception of Blake in the Orient. Ed. Steve Clark and Masashi Suzuki (London: Continuum P, 2006): 121-134.

_____________, ed. Romantic Natural Histories: William Wordsworth, Charles Darwin, and Others. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

_____________. “Roaring Alligators and Burning Tygers: Poetry and Science from William Bartram to Charles Darwin,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society , 149:3 (2005): 304-15.

Norton, Charles Eliot. The Poet Gray as Naturalist: with selections from his notes on the Systemma Naturae of Linnaeus. Boston: Charles Goodspeed, 1903.

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Oerlemans, Onno Dag. “‘The Meanest Thing that Feels’: Anthropomorphizing Animals in Romanticism,” Mosaic 27.1: 1-32.

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Paley, William. Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity collected from the appearances of nature. London: L. Faulder, 1803 [4th ed.].

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Valli, Eusebius. Experiments on Animal Electricity, with their application to physiology. And some pathological and medical observations. London: J. Johnson, 1793.

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White, Gilbert. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. London: T. Bensley: 1789.

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