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(Male Narwal, or Unicorn, 1828)<\/a><\/h6>\n

I. <\/span>Why a “Romantic” Natural History?<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n

II. <\/span>Backgrounds: From Aristotle to Erasmus Darwin<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n

III. <\/span>The Anxiety of Species: Toward a Romantic Natural History<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n

IV. <\/span>Romantic Science and the Pleasures of Nature<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n

V. <\/span>Additional Topics in Romantic Natural History<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n

VI. <\/span>A Romantic Natural History Timeline: 1750-1859<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n

VII. <\/span>Darwin’s Evolution: A New Gallery of Images<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n


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VIII. Natural Historians:
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\n(The Temple of Nature, 1803)<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n

Carolus Linnaeus<\/a> (1707-78), George-Louis Buffon <\/a>(1707-88),
\nGilbert White<\/a> (1720-93)
\nOliver Goldsmith<\/a> (1728-74), Erasmus Darwin<\/a> (1731-1802),
\nJoseph Priestley<\/a> (1733-1804)
\nWilliam Bartram<\/a> (1739-1823), Thomas Jefferson<\/a> (1743-1826),
\nWilliam Paley<\/a> (1743-1805)
\nJean Lamarck<\/a> (1744-1829), Benjamin Rush<\/a> (1746-1813),
\nAlexander von Humboldt<\/a> (1769-1859)
\nGeorges Cuvier<\/a> (1769-1832), William Smith<\/a> (1769-1839),
\nGeoffray St. Hilaire<\/a> (1772-1844)
\nAdam Sedgwick<\/a> (1785-1873), John D. Godman<\/a> (1794-1830)
\nLouis Agassiz<\/a> (1807-73)
\nCharles Darwin<\/a> (1809-82), Henry David Thoreau<\/a> (1817-62),
\nSpencer F. Baird<\/a> (1823-87)<\/p>\n

XIX. Literary Figures:
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\n(“The Fertilization of Egypt,” 1791)<\/a><\/h4>\n

James Thomson<\/a> (1700-48), John Dyer<\/a> (1700-58),
\nThomas Gray<\/a> (1716-71)
\nChristopher Smart<\/a> (1722-71), Thomas Warton<\/a> (1728-90),
\nWilliam Cowper<\/a> (1731-1800)
\nAnna Laetitia Barbauld<\/a> (1743-1825), Charlotte Smith<\/a> (1749-1806),
\nWilliam Blake<\/a> (1757-1827)
\nRobert Burns<\/a> (1759-96), Ann Radcliffe<\/a> (1764-1823),
\nWilliam Wordsworth<\/a> (1770-1850),
\nSamuel Taylor Coleridge<\/a> (1772-1834), Lord Byron<\/a> (1788-1824),
\nPercy Bysshe Shelley<\/a> (1792-1822),
\nFelicia Hemans<\/a> (1793-1835), John Clare<\/a> (1793-1864)
\nJohn Keats<\/a> (1795-1821),
\nMary Wollstonecraft Shelley<\/a> (1797-1851), Letitia Landon<\/a> (1802-38)
\nThomas Beddoes<\/a> (1803-49),
\nAlfred, Lord Tennyson<\/a> (1809-92), Robert Browning<\/a> (1812-89)<\/p>\n

X. Artists and Illustrators:
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\n(Nightingale, Bewick, 1797)<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n

Joseph Wright of Derby<\/a> (1734-92), Charles Willson Peale<\/a> (1741-1827)
\nThomas Bewick<\/a> (1753-1828),
\nRubens Peale<\/a> (1784-1865), John James Audubon<\/a> (1785-1851),
\nTitian Peale<\/a> (1799-1885)<\/p>\n

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XI. A Romantic Natural History <\/span><\/a>Bibliography<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n

(8\/2011: Updated Regularly)<\/p>\n


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Houghton Mifflin<\/strong> has published a teaching anthology<\/strong><\/p>\n

based on the\u00a0Romantic Natural History <\/em><\/strong>hypertext<\/p>\n

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Click cover image to purchase a paperback copy of<\/big> Romantic Natural Histories<\/a><\/em> (2004)<\/big><\/h6>\n

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See also\u00a0http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/2012\/07\/02\/urbanatural-roosting\/<\/a>\u00a0or click cover image:<\/h5>\n

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to order a paperback copy of Beyond Romantic Ecocriticsm: Toward Urbanatural Roosting <\/em>(2012)<\/h5>\n

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the BBC (\u201cEducation Web\u201d), Romantic Circles<\/em> (U. of Maryland) and as “Site of the Day” (BLTC Research, UK)<\/strong><\/p>\n

As of November 2012, the site was receiving an average of c. 30,000 hits per month<\/strong><\/p>\n

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