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Chapter 15 - Science

from Part III - Disciplinary Connections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2021

Jeffrey W. Barbeau
By
Rosalind Powell
Jeffrey W. Barbeau
Affiliation:
Wheaton College, Illinois
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Summary

This chapter explores how the scientific and literary preoccupation with the sources of sensation and sensibility in the Romantic period results in a reassessment of the relationship between matter and spirit. The chemistry of Joseph Priestley and Humphry Davy on matter and respiration is read in the context of devotional practice and the poetry of Anna Letitia Barbauld, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Erasmus Darwin.

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British Romanticismnatural philosophyscienceassociationchemistrypneumatic medicinesubjectivity
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The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion , pp. 257 - 273
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Fairclough, Mary. Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740–1840: “Electrick Communication Every Where.” Basingstoke, 2017.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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  • Science
  • Jeffrey W. Barbeau, Wheaton College, Illinois
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion
  • Online publication: 01 October 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108609661.015
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  • Science
  • Jeffrey W. Barbeau, Wheaton College, Illinois
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion
  • Online publication: 01 October 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108609661.015
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  • Science
  • Jeffrey W. Barbeau, Wheaton College, Illinois
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion
  • Online publication: 01 October 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108609661.015
Available formats
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