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Situated at the intersection of literature and science, Holland's study draws upon a diverse corpus of literary and scientific texts which testify to a cultural fascination with procreation around 1800. Through readings which range from Goethe 's writing on metamorphosis to Novalis 's aphorisms and novels and Ritter 's Fragments from the Estate of a Young Physicist, Holland proposes that each author contributes to a scientifically-informed poetics of procreation. Rather than subscribing to a single biological theory (such as epigenesis or preformation), these authors take their inspiration from a wide inventory of procreative motifs and imagery.
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German romanticism and science, Jocelyn Holland
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- Released
- 2009
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- Title
- German romanticism and science
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jocelyn Holland
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Released
- 2009
- ISBN10
- 0415993261
- ISBN13
- 9780415993265
- Category
- World prose
- Description
- Situated at the intersection of literature and science, Holland's study draws upon a diverse corpus of literary and scientific texts which testify to a cultural fascination with procreation around 1800. Through readings which range from Goethe 's writing on metamorphosis to Novalis 's aphorisms and novels and Ritter 's Fragments from the Estate of a Young Physicist, Holland proposes that each author contributes to a scientifically-informed poetics of procreation. Rather than subscribing to a single biological theory (such as epigenesis or preformation), these authors take their inspiration from a wide inventory of procreative motifs and imagery.