Holland German Romanticism and Science

The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-1-135-85016-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Romanticism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holland, Jocelyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Poetic Procreation and Goethe’s Theory of Metamorphosis

Chapter Three: Friedrich von Hardenberg and the Discourse of Procreation

Chapter Four: The Poet as Artisan and the Instruments of Procreation

Chapter Five: Johann Wilhelm Ritter and the Writing of Life

Chapter Six: Procreative Thinking - Scientific Projects

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jocelyn Holland is Assistant Professor, Department of German and the Program for Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara.