{"product_id":"imagination-and-science-in-romanticism","title":"Imagination and Science in Romanticism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow did the idea of the imagination impact Romantic literature and science?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2018 Winner, Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize, The International Conference on Romanticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard C. Sha argues that scientific understandings of the imagination indelibly shaped literary Romanticism. Challenging the idea that the imagination found a home only on the side of the literary, as a mental vehicle for transcending the worldly materials of the sciences, Sha shows how imagination helped to operationalize both scientific and literary discovery. Essentially, the imagination forced writers to consider the difference between what was possible and impossible while thinking about how that difference could be known. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSha examines how the imagination functioned within physics and chemistry in Percy Bysshe Shelley's \u003ci\u003ePrometheus Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e, neurology in Blake's \u003ci\u003eVala\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eor\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Four Zoas\u003c\/i\u003e, physiology in Coleridge's \u003ci\u003eBiographia Literaria\u003c\/i\u003e, and obstetrics and embryology in Mary Shelley's \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e. He also demonstrates how the imagination was called upon to do aesthetic and scientific work using primary examples taken from the work of scientists and philosophers Davy, Dalton, Faraday, Priestley, Kant, Mary Somerville, Oersted, Marcet, Smellie, Swedenborg, Blumenbach, Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, and Von Baer, among others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSha 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54226313740632,"sku":"9781421425788","price":61.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781421425788_0b102b68-64c0-4841-a69a-47ec17c757fe.jpg?v=1764327631","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/imagination-and-science-in-romanticism","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}