Scott, Heidi C. M. 1978-

Chaos and cosmos : literary roots of modern ecology in the British nineteenth century / Heidi C.M. Scott. - University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (210 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

"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"--Provided by publisher.




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English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Nature in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Chaotic behavior in systems in literature.
Microcosm and macrocosm in literature.
Romanticism--Great Britain.


Electronic Books.

PR468 / .C436 2014