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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Shelley, Mary"”.
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Science, politics, and soul-making: the Romantic encounter with climate change
… writers from 1780 to 1880 (William Cowper, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Keats and John Ruskin), I argue that an epistemic shift occurred in the way Britons understood their own climate’s history and its relationship to the earth’s climate. Using an ecohistorical method that combines close …
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"Airy Children of Our Brain": Emotion, Science and the Legacy of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy in the Shelley Circle, 1812-1821
… the mind through selected texts written by the Shelley circle, including P. B. Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Lord Byron. Emotion is a significant variable that dominates human existence. For this reason, the concept of emotion continues to intrigue numerous scientists working today in the fields of …
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Gothic Horror and Scientific Education in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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Stretched Out On Her Grave: The Evolution of a Perversion
… The works examined for necrophilic content are: Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary, A Fiction, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Jewel of Seven Stars.
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Tragedy and the Younger Romantics
… period by focusing on the work of Byron, Keats, Mary Shelley, and P. B. Shelley, and their contemporaries. It argues for the centrality of tragedy to the work of these writers, and to British Romantic literary culture. I contend that tragedy gains special cultural importance at the start of the …