Chaos and cosmos : literary roots of modern ecology in the British nineteenth century /
Traces an epistemological legacy from Romantic and Victorian ecological literature to modern scientific ecology. Investigates two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that continue to be debated today.
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University Park :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Chaos
- Romantic chaos : natural patterns disturbed
- Victorian chaos : industrial disruptions
- Today's science nonfiction
- Microcosm
- Romantic microcosms : brain worlds
- Victorian microcosms : domestic systems
- Today's scientific modeling
- Keats and ecology : a case study
- The literary empiricist
- Hyperion : the chaos of Tartarus
- Microcosmic odes.