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Author Goldstein, Amanda Jo, author.

Title Sweet science : romantic materialism and the new logics of life / Amanda Jo Goldstein.

Publication Info. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 330 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: "sweet science" -- Blake's mundane egg: epigenesis and milieux -- Equivocal life: Goethe's journals on morphology -- Tender semiosis: reading Goethe with Lucretius and Paul de Man -- Growing old together: Lucretian materialism in Shelley's The triumph of life -- A natural history of violence: allegory and atomism in Shelley's The mask of anarchy -- Coda: old materialism, or romantic Marx.
Summary Today we do not expect poems to carry scientifically valid information. But it was not always so. In 'Sweet Science', Amanda Jo Goldstein returns to the beginnings of the division of labor between literature and science to recover a tradition of Romantic life writing for which poetry was a privileged technique of empirical inquiry. Goldstein puts apparently literary projects, such as William Blake's poetry of embryogenesis, Goethe's journals 'On Morphology', and Percy Shelley's "poetry of life," back into conversation with the openly poetic life sciences of Erasmus Darwin, J.G. Herder, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, and Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Such poetic sciences, Goldstein argues, share in reviving Lucretius's 'De rerum natura' to advance a view of biological life as neither self-organized nor autonomous, but rather dependent on the collaborative and symbolic processes that give it viable and recognizable form. They summon 'De rerum natura' for a logic of life resistant to the vitalist stress on self-authorizing power and to make a monumental case for poetry's role in the perception and communication of empirical realities. The first dedicated study of this mortal and materialist dimension of Romantic biopoetics, 'Sweet Science' opens a through-line between Enlightenment materialisms of nature and Marx's coming historical materialism
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Subject Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. Masque of anarchy.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. Triumph of life.
Lucretius Carus, Titus -- Influence.
Blake, William, 1757-1827
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
Lucretius Carus, Titus
Masque of anarchy (Shelley, Percy Bysshe)
Triumph of life (Shelley, Percy Bysshe)
European literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Romanticism.
Materialism in literature.
Literature and science.
romanticism (form of expression)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
European literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature and science
Materialism in literature
Romanticism
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Goldstein, Amanda Jo. Sweet science. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017 9780226458441 (DLC) 2016051250 (OCoLC)958780041
ISBN 9780226458588 (electronic bk.)
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