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.