Richard C. Sha's revealing study considers how science shaped notions of sexuality, reproduction, and gender in the Romantic period.
Through careful and imaginative readings of various scientific texts, the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Longinus, and the works of such writers as William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Lord Byron, Sha explores the influence of contemporary aesthetics and biology on literary Romanticism.
Revealing that ideas of sexuality during the Romantic era were much more fluid and undecided than they are often characterized in the...
Richard C. Sha's revealing study considers how science shaped notions of sexuality, reproduction, and gender in the Romantic period.
With their broken lines and hasty brushwork, sketches acquired enormous ideological and aesthetic power during the Romantic period in England. Sha examines the shifting economic and aesthetic value of the sketch in sources ranging from auction catalogs and sketching manuals to novels that employed scenes of sketching and courtship.
With their broken lines and hasty brushwork, sketches acquired enormous ideological and aesthetic power during the Romantic period in England. Sha exa...
Sha concludes that both fields benefited from thinking about how imagination could cooperate with reason-but that this partnership was impossible unless imagination's penchant for fantasy could be contained.
Sha concludes that both fields benefited from thinking about how imagination could cooperate with reason-but that this partnership was impossible unle...
