Nature and the Victorian Imagination

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Nature and the Victorian Imagination

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2023

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This title was originally published in 1977.

This title was originally published in 1977.

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Knoepflmacher U. C. :

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Business and Economics Political Economics History of Economics

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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A Prefatory Note
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Introduction
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THE MIND'S EYE
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Images of Nature: A Photo-Essay
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Charles Millard

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THE TAMING OF SPACE
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Felicitous Space: The Cottage Controversy
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George H. Ford

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Imagination in the Suburb
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Watlter L. Creese

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The Domestication of Nature: Five Houses in the Lake District
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Ellen E. Frank

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EXPLORATIONS
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The Arctic Sublime
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Chauncey C. Loomis

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Mid-Victorians amongst the Alps
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David Robertson

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High and Low: Ruskin and the Novelists
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George Levine

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"A Surprising Transformation": Dickens and the Hearth
153
Robert L. Patten

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The Interior Garden and John Stuart Mill
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Andrew Griffin

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SYSTEMS OF KNOWLEDGE
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The Rich Economy of Nature: Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century
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Trevor H. Levere

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Concepts of Physical Nature: John Herschel to Karl Pearson
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David B. Wilson

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The Human Significance of Biology: Carpenter, Darwin, and the vera causa
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Roger Smith

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The Humanist at Bay: The Arnold-Huxley Debate
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R. H. Super

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A Science against Sciences: Ruskin's Floral Mythology
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Frederick Kirchhoff

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The Perfection of Species" and Hardy's Tess
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Bruce Johnson

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REDEFINITIONS
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Victorian Landscape Painting: A Change in Outlook
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W. F. Axton

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"Half Sick of Shadows": The Aesthetic Dialogue in Pre-Raphaelite Painting
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Martin Meisel

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The Rainbow: A Problematic Image
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George P. Landow

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The Sacramental Imagination
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G. B. Tennyson

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Mutations of the Wordsworthian Child of Nature
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U. C. Knoepflmacher

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Browning and the Altered Romantic Landscape
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Lawrence Poston

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Nature and the Linguistic Moment
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J. Hillis Miller

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Lawrence's Vital Source: Nature and Character in Thomas Hardy
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John Paterson

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"That strange abstraction, "Nature": T. S. Eliot's Victorian Inheritance
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A. Walton Litz

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Afterglow and Aftermath
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Contributors
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Index
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December 22, 2023

eBook ISBN:

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Reprint 2020

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544

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131 fig.

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520340152

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Keywords for this book

economic history; economics; Europe; history; history of culture; intellectual history

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Nature and the Victorian Imagination

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

A Prefatory Note

Introduction

Images of Nature: A Photo-Essay

Felicitous Space: The Cottage Controversy

Imagination in the Suburb

The Domestication of Nature: Five Houses in the Lake District

The Arctic Sublime

Mid-Victorians amongst the Alps

High and Low: Ruskin and the Novelists

"A Surprising Transformation": Dickens and the Hearth

The Interior Garden and John Stuart Mill

The Rich Economy of Nature: Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century

Concepts of Physical Nature: John Herschel to Karl Pearson

The Human Significance of Biology: Carpenter, Darwin, and the vera causa

The Humanist at Bay: The Arnold-Huxley Debate

A Science against Sciences: Ruskin's Floral Mythology

The Perfection of Species" and Hardy's Tess

Victorian Landscape Painting: A Change in Outlook

"Half Sick of Shadows": The Aesthetic Dialogue in Pre-Raphaelite Painting

The Rainbow: A Problematic Image

The Sacramental Imagination

Mutations of the Wordsworthian Child of Nature

Browning and the Altered Romantic Landscape

Nature and the Linguistic Moment

Lawrence's Vital Source: Nature and Character in Thomas Hardy

"That strange abstraction, "Nature": T. S. Eliot's Victorian Inheritance

Afterglow and Aftermath

Contributors

Index

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