Romantic Natural History
  • Contents
    • Why a “Romantic” Natural History?
    • Backgrounds: From Aristotle to Erasmus Darwin
    • The Anxiety of Species: Toward a Romantic Natural History
    • The Loves of Plants and Animals: Romantic Science and the Pleasures of Nature
    • Additional Topics in Romantic Natural History
    • Darwin’s Evolution: A New Gallery of Images
    • A Romantic Natural History Timeline: 1750-1859
  • Natural Historians
    • Spencer F. Baird
    • Henry David Thoreau
    • Charles Darwin
    • Louis Agassiz
    • John D. Godman
    • Adam Sedgwick
    • Geoffray St. Hilaire
    • William Smith
    • Georges Cuvier
    • Alexander von Humboldt
    • Benjamin Rush
    • Jean Lamarck
    • William Paley
    • Thomas Jefferson
    • William Bartram
    • Joseph Priestley
    • Erasmus Darwin
    • Oliver Goldsmith
    • Gilbert White
    • George-Louis Buffon
    • Carolus Linnaeus
  • Literary Figures
    • Letitia Landon
    • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    • John Keats
    • John Clare
    • Felicia Hemans
    • Percy Bysshe Shelley
    • Lord Byron
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    • William Wordsworth
    • Ann Radcliffe
    • Robert Burns
    • William Blake
    • Charlotte Smith
    • Anna Laetitia Barbauld
    • William Cowper
    • Thomas Warton
    • Christopher Smart
    • Thomas Gray
    • Thomas Beddoes
    • James Thomson
    • Alfred Lord Tennyson
    • Robert Browning
    • John Dyer
  • Topics
    • Temple of Nature (1803)
    • Dorothy Wordsworth
    • Fossils
    • Geologist Poets
    • Rhinos, Crocs and other Monsters
    • Global Exploration
    • Amphibious Thinking
    • Poetry Lab with Dr. Frankenstein
    • Galvani’s Electric Romanticism
    • Frog Fish from Surinam
    • Boundary between Plant and Animal
    • Mimosa: The Sensitive Plant
    • The Venus Fly Trap and the Great Chain of Being
    • Humans as a species of Animal
    • Monkeys, Men and Apes
    • Jardine’s Natural History of Monkeys
    • Human Monsters and Reproductive Mysteries
    • Human Taxonomy
    • Goldsmith’s History of Earth and Animated Nature
    • Erasmus Darwin and the Frankenstein Mistake
    • James King Davidson’s Journal
    • Zoos as a 19th Century Spectacle
    • Mammoths and Mastodons
    • Fontana on the Venom of the Viper
    • Celestial Bodies
    • Coleridge on Plants and Animals
    • Baird Report as Curator of Museum
  • Artists & Illustrators
    • Joseph Wright of Derby
    • Charles Willson Peale
    • Thomas Bewick
    • Rubens Peale
    • John James Audubon
    • Titian Peale
  • Bibliography
  • Tags
The Loves of Plants and Animals: Romantic Science and the Pleasures of Nature A Romantic Natural History Timeline: 1750-1859

Additional Topics in Romantic Natural History

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
Extinction as Metaphor
The Frog-Fish of Surinam
Geologist-Poets and Poet-Geologists
Human “Monsters” and Reproductive Mysteries
Humans as a Species of Animal
James King Davidson’s Undergraduate Notebook
The Language of Flowers
Life Below the Waves
Luigi Galvani and Electric Romanticism

In the Poetry Lab with Dr. Frankenstein
Monkeys, Men, and Man-Apes
Natural History for Children
Reconciling the Fossil Record
Rhinoceroses, Elephants, Crocodiles and other “Monsters”
Romantic Rhinos and Victorian Vipers: The Zoo as Spectacle
Shelley and Others on the Sensitive Plant
The Species Question
The Venus Fly-trap and the Great Chain of Being


Useful external links for A Romantic Natural History:


CogWeb

(Francis Steen’s “Cognitive Cultural Studies” site)


History of Evolutionary Thought

(UC/Berkeley Museum of Paleontology)


Evolutionary Theory Before Darwin

(George Landow on “The Victorian Web”)

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