A brief but incisive review of a new book by Richard Holmes about romanticism and the sciences in Literary Review, entitled The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science. This a subject near and dear to me at the moment, as I am trying to make my own contribution to the discussion. Wish me luck…
Thanks to the folks at Arts & Letters Daily for the awesome heads up.
October 17, 2008 at 12:26 am |
Cool, thanks.
October 17, 2008 at 9:44 am |
Welcome. Thanks for the earlier comment, BTW…
November 2, 2009 at 1:28 am |
[...] Shelley’s work, widely seen as the first sci-fi novel, sets a tone for the boldly transgressive nature (or even Ur-nature) of science in the romantic age. Maybe that’s why our stalwart Times reviewer also mentions another recent (and widely publicized) book on romanticism and science, Richard Holmes’ The Age of Wonder. [...]
December 6, 2009 at 11:52 pm |
[...] this one in City Journal magazine. I’ve mentioned Holmes on science and romanticism here and here. This reviewer remarks on the double-edged sword of the Romantic and its unexpected literary and [...]