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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scott, Heidi C. M. (Heidi Cathryn Molly), 1978- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
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.