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Creating RomanticismConclusion

Creating Romanticism: Conclusion [Romantic writers’ engagement with science and medicine is complex, sophisticated, and at times critical and challenging. Scientific and medical ideas are accepted and appropriated for political purposes, a process which reveals that poets, novelists, and essay writers were fully alive to the cultural weight of these ideas. Conversely, explicitly scientific and medical texts can be seen to borrow the language, images, metaphors, and aesthetic practices we would usually associate with more literary kinds of writing. Even where chapters in this book consider what appears to be one-way influence from science to literature or vice versa, this is rarely straightforward. These writers of all genres were astute political thinkers who identified and utilized what they needed from the work of others. Just as science is not a cultural monolith, despite the singular noun used to describe it, Romanticism should more properly be recognized as Romanticisms, and the plurality and variety of genre, politics, and style can be seen in the many texts discussed in this book. It is difficult to conclude that there was a particular method, practice or approach in the Romantics’ use of science and medicine, although we can say that clearly they were very interested in it, whether defining themselves against it or adopting it for their own ends.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Creating RomanticismConclusion

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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
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978-1-349-44295-9
Pages
175 –177
DOI
10.1057/9781137264299_6
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[Romantic writers’ engagement with science and medicine is complex, sophisticated, and at times critical and challenging. Scientific and medical ideas are accepted and appropriated for political purposes, a process which reveals that poets, novelists, and essay writers were fully alive to the cultural weight of these ideas. Conversely, explicitly scientific and medical texts can be seen to borrow the language, images, metaphors, and aesthetic practices we would usually associate with more literary kinds of writing. Even where chapters in this book consider what appears to be one-way influence from science to literature or vice versa, this is rarely straightforward. These writers of all genres were astute political thinkers who identified and utilized what they needed from the work of others. Just as science is not a cultural monolith, despite the singular noun used to describe it, Romanticism should more properly be recognized as Romanticisms, and the plurality and variety of genre, politics, and style can be seen in the many texts discussed in this book. It is difficult to conclude that there was a particular method, practice or approach in the Romantics’ use of science and medicine, although we can say that clearly they were very interested in it, whether defining themselves against it or adopting it for their own ends.]

Published: Oct 12, 2015

Keywords: Medical Idea; Political Purpose; Medical Text; Creative Imagination; Essay Writer

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