Deep time : a literary history /

Deep Time: A Literary History challenges the exclusive association between deep time and the modern science of geology by focusing on late Enlightenment writings that used narrative form to integrate new empirical data and methods with Western and non-Western traditions of chronology, earth history...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Heringman, Noah (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023].
Subjects:	Geology in literature. English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. Literature and science > Great Britain > 18th century > History. Technical writing > Great Britain > 18th century > History. Geological time and literature. Human ecology and literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature. SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology.

Table of Contents:

Primitive rocks and primitive customs: geological and human time in the Pacific voyage narratives of John Reinhold and George Foster
The "Profoundest depths of time" in Buffon's Epochs of nature
William Blake, the ballad revival, and the deep past of poetry
The descent into deep time in Darwin and Lubbock: voyages narrative, comparative method, and human animality
Afterword. Evolutionary nostalgia and the romance of origins.