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"In Imagination and Science in Romanticism, Richard Sha challenges the idea that the imagination could only be applied to the literary and that its primary role was to transcend scientific concerns. Sha shows how the imagination functioned within physics and chemistry in Prometheus Unbound, neurology in Blake's Four Zoas, physiology in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, and obstetrics and embryology in Frankenstein. Sha also shows how the imagination was used in the scientific community, highlighting as primary examples the work of Davy, Faraday, Priestley, Kant, Mary Somerville, Oersted, Marcet, Swedenborg, Blumenbach, Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, and Von Baer, among others. Both fields profited from thinking about how the imagination could cooperate with reason and how hypotheses that had the possibility of actuality could benefit their work" --

English literature --- Science in literature. --- Imagination in literature. --- Romanticism --- Discoveries in science --- Littérature anglaise --- Littérature et sciences. --- Romantisme --- Découvertes scientifiques --- Imagination (philosophie) --- Imaginaire (philosophie) --- History and criticism. --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, --- Blake, William, --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, --- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, --- Blake, William --- Shelley, Percy Bysshe --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor --- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft --- Thematology --- anno 1800-1899 --- Histoire et critique. --- Breakthroughs, Scientific --- Discoveries, Scientific --- Scientific breakthroughs --- Scientific discoveries --- Creative ability in science --- Research --- Literary theory --- Littérature anglaise --- Littérature et sciences. --- Découvertes scientifiques

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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 existing scholarship, Sha’s innovative study complicates received claims concerning the shift from perversity to perversion in the nineteenth century. He observes that the questions of perversity—or purposelessness—became simultaneously critical in Kantian aesthetics, biological functionalism, and Romantic ideas of private and public sexuality. The Romantics, then, sought to reconceptualize sexual pleasure as deriving from mutuality rather than from the biological purpose of reproduction.At the nexus of Kantian aesthetics, literary analysis, and the history of medicine, Perverse Romanticism makes an important contribution to the study of sexuality in the long eighteenth century.

Gender studies, gender groups

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With explosive interest in Romantic science and theories of mind and a renewed sense of the period's porousness to the world, along with new developments in cognitive theory and research, Romantic studies scholars have been called to revisit and re-map the terrain laid out in the highly influential 1970 volume 'Romanticism and Consciousness'. 'Romanticism and Consciousness, Revisited' brings this shift in approach to Romantic 'consciousness'- no longer the possession of a sole self but transactional, social, and entangled with the outside world - up to date.

Consciousness in literature. --- Romanticism. --- Bloom, Harold.

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Thematology --- anno 1800-1899