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Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837: Volume I: Human Nature book cover

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Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837 Volume I: Human Nature

Edited By Tim Fulford Copyright 2027
866 Pages
by Routledge

This volume features some of the most controversial and topical science writing of the period. Investigations of the human body led to vexed debates about the nature and origins of life – materialism vs. spiritualism. Anatomical studies demonstrated humans’ likeness to other mammals; these, combined with studies of fossil bones of extinct creatures, led to theories of evolution that laid the... Read more

Volume 1. Human Nature

General Introduction

Volume 1 Introduction

Part 1. Theories of life

1. John Hunter, ‘On the Digestion of the Stomach after Death’, (1772) in Lazzaro Spallanzani, Dissertations Relative to the Natural History of Animals and Vegetables, tr. Thomas Beddoes, 2 vols (London: J. Murray, 1789) vol. 1, pp. 295-302.

2. Lazzaro Spallanzani, An Essay on Animal Reproductions, tr. M. Maty (London: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1769).  

3. Lazzaro Spallanzani, Dissertations Relative to the Natural History of Animals and Vegetables, tr. Thomas Beddoes, 2 vols (London: J. Murray, 1789), Dissertation 6, pp. 251-93. 

4. John Hunter, A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation and Gunshot Wounds (London: George Nicol, 1794), pp. 11-100.

5. Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, the Laws of Organic Life, 2 vols (London: J. Johnson, 1794-96), vol. 1, pp. 30-226,

6. William Lawrence, An Introduction to Comparative Anatomy and Physiology: Being the Two Introductory Lectures Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons, on the 21st and 25th of March, 1816 (London: J. Callow, 1816), pp. 115-79.

7. John Abernethy, Physiological Lectures, Exhibiting a General View of Mr. Hunter's Physiology: and of his Researches in Comparative Anatomy. Delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, in the Year 1817 (London: Longman, 1817), pp. 25-54.

8. S. T. Coleridge, Hints Towards the Formation of a More Comprehensive Theory of Life, ed. Seth B. Watson (London: John Churchill, 1848), pp. 17-94.

9. James Cowles Prichard, A Review of the Doctrine of a Vital Principle (London, John and Arthur Arch, 1829), pp. 1-142.

 

Part 2. Anatomy and Medicine

10. Matthew Baillie, Diseased Appearances of the Lungs’, The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body (London: J. Johnson, 1793), pp. 42-55.

11. William Withering, An Account of the Foxglove, and Some of its Medical Uses (Birmingham: for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1785), pp. 2-5, 7-16, 184-88

12. John Brown, The Elements of Medicine, 2 vols (London: J. Johnson, 1795), vol. 1, pp. cxxvi-cxxxvii.

13. Edward Jenner, An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae (London: for the author, 1798)

14. Thomas Beddoes and James Watt, Considerations on the Medicinal Use of Factitious Airs (London: J. Johnson, 1794), pp. 9-15; 27.

15. Thomas Beddoes, Hygëia: or Essays Moral and Medical, on the Causes Affecting the Personal State of Our Middling and Affluent Classes, 3 vols (Bristol: printed by J. Mills for R. Phillips, London, 1802-3), vol. 1, Essay III; pp. 12-84.

 

Part 3. Evolution

16. James Burnett, Lord Monboddo Of the Origin and Progress of Language, 2nd edn, 2 vols (Edinburgh and London: J Balfour and T. Cadell, 1774), pp. 270-311.

17. Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, the Laws of Organic Life, 2 vols (London: J. Johnson, 1794-96), vol. 1, pp. 478-533.

18. Erasmus Darwin, from The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society: A Poem, with Philosophical Notes (London: J. Johnson, 1803), pp. 25-37.

 

Part 4. Race

19. Petrus Camper, The Works of the late Professor Camper, on the Connexion between the Science of Anatomy and the Arts of Drawing, Painting, Statuary &c &c (London: C. Dilly, 1794), pp. 13-44. 

20. Johan Friedrich Blumenbach, A Manual of the Elements of Natural History, tr. R. T. Gore (London: W. Simpkin & R. Marshall, 1825), pp. 34-37.

21. William Lawrence, Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man (London: J. Callow, 1819), pp. 119-20, 123-26, 383-64, 446-47, 461-63, 467, 475-79, 482-86, 488-94, 499-500, 549-50, 554-55, 559-61.

22. James Cowles Prichard, Researches into the Natural History of Mankind, 3rd edn (London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper and J. and A. Arch, 1836), pp. 366-76.

 

Bibliography

Index

 

Biography

Tim Fulford is Professor of English at de Montfort University. His publications include Experimentalism in Wordsworth's later Poetry: Dialogues with the Dead (2023) Robert Southey, Lives of Labouring-class Poets, ed. Tim Fulford (2023) and Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley and Rise and Progress of Methodism (2022).

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