1st Edition
German Romanticism and Science The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter
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
Biography
Jocelyn Holland is Assistant Professor, Department of German and the Program for Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
"Holland’s insightful and compelling account brings alive some important debates in Romantic science, illuminating a fascinating chapter in the history of vitalism and materialism alike." – Paul Bishop, University of Glasgow, UK, Modern Language Review
