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The Botanic Garden by Erasmus Darwin book cover

1st Edition

The Botanic Garden by Erasmus Darwin

Edited By Adam Komisaruk, Allison Dushane
652 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

652 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The career of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) affords an extraordinary glimpse into the intellectual ferment of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain. As a popular poet, practicing physician, inventor of speaking machines and mechanical birds, essayer of natural history from geology to meteorology, and proponent of an evolutionary theory that inspired his famous grandson Charles, he... Read more

Volume One

  1. Editors’ Introduction

    1. Prologue: The Botanic Garden as Organism

    2. Cultivating the Garden: Erasmus Darwin, 1731-1802

    3. The Botanic Garden: The Text

    4. Contexts: Aesthetic Practice and Theory

    5. Contexts: The Science of the Mind

    6. Contexts: Love and Sexuality

    7. Contexts: Politics

    8. Contexts: Spirituality

    9. Contexts: The Natural Sciences

    10. Contexts: Evolutionary Theory and the Two Darwins

    11. Bibliography

  2. Reading Text of The Economy of Vegetation

    3.

    1. Front Matter

    2. Canto I

    3. Canto II

    4. Canto III

    5. Canto IV

    6. Additional Notes

    7. Back Matter

  3. Apparatus to The Economy of Vegetation

    4.

    1. Editors’ Annotations

    2. Discussion of Illustrations

    3. Textual Notes

    　

    　

    Volume Two

  4. Reading Text of The Loves of the Plants

    5.

    A. Canto I

    B. First Interlude

    C. Canto II

    D. Second Interlude

    E. Canto III

    F. Third Interlude

    G. Canto IV

    H. Additional Notes

    I. Back Matter

  5. Apparatus to The Loves of the Plants

    6.

    1. Editors’ Annotations

    2. Discussion of Illustrations

    3. Textual Notes

    4. Taxonomic Table to The Loves of the Plants

Biography

Adam Komisaruk (Edited by) ,  Allison Dushane (Edited by)

"...this is an edition of The Botanic Garden which every university library – and the library of anyone interested in the long poem and its seemingly infinite annotative capacities – should have on hand."

- Christy Edwall in TLS

"They are to be applauded: their meticulous presentation of a difficult and slippery text gives it to critics of Romanticism as never before. Theirs will be the standard scholarly edition for generations to come; it will also, if enough of us ensure that our unversity libraries order it, be a fertile text for our students: under Komisaruk's and Dushane's green editorial fingers, the Botanic Garden flowers again."

- Tim Fulford, De Montfort University

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