Discovering the Human
life science and the arts in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
$226.48
- Hardcover
204 pages
- Release Date
13 August 2013
Summary
‘Discovering the Human’ investigates the emergence of the modern human sciences and their impact on literature, art and other media in the 18th and the 19th centuries. Up until the 1830s, science and culture were part of a joint endeavour to discover and explore the secret of life. The question ‘What is life?’ unites science and the arts during the Ages of Enlightenment and Romanticism, and at the end of the Romantic period, a shift of focus from the human as an organic whole to the specializ…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783847101376 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3847101374 |
| Author: | Prof. Dr. Christoph Heyl, Dr. Mascha Hansen, Dr. Sladja Blazan, Prof. Catherine Clinger, Ulrike Kristina Köhler, Dr. Felix C.H. Sprang, Prof. Dr. Hania Siebenpfeiffer, Prof. Dr. Helga Schwalm, Prof. Dr. Birgit M. Kaiser, Prof. Dr. Ute Berns |
| Publisher: | V&R unipress GmbH |
| Imprint: | V&R unipress GmbH |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 204 |
| Release Date: | 13 August 2013 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Dimensions: | 245mm x 163mm x 19mm |
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About The Author
Prof. Dr. Christoph Heyl
Dr. Ralf Haekel is Juniorprofessor of English Literature and Culture at Göttingen University. His research interests include Early Modern drama, science in British Romanticism and literature and media studies. His new book ‘The Soul in British Romanticism’ will be published later this year.Sabine Blackmore is junior lecturer and research assistant at the English department of Humboldt-Universität, where she is completing her PhD thesis on female melancholy in early eighteenth century poems. Her research interests focus on melancholy and gender before 1800, medicine and literature, as well as crime fiction, topics on which she has published journal articles.
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