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
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Coleridge on Plants and Animals in Anima Poetae

Romantic Rhinos and Victorian Vipers: The Zoo as Nineteenth-Century Spectacle

Oliver Goldsmith’s History of the Earth and Animated Nature

Human taxonomy

Human “monsters” and reproductive mysteries

Humans as a Species of Animal

The Venus Fly-trap and the Great Chain of Being

Polypus (hydra) and the boundary between plant and animal

Additional Topics in Romantic Natural History

The Loves of Plants and Animals: Romantic Science and the Pleasures of Nature

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