| Author |
Holland, Jocelyn |
| Year |
2009 |
| Publisher |
New York: Routledge |
| Number of pages |
232 |
| ISBN |
9780415993265 |
| Keywords |
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Abstract
Amazon (2013):
Situated at the intersection of literature and science, Holland's study draws upon
a diverse corpus of literary and scientific texts which testify to a cultural fascination
with procreation around 1800. Through readings which range from Goethe’s writing on
metamorphosis to Novalis’s aphorisms and novels and Ritter’s Fragments from the Estate
of a Young Physicist, Holland proposes that each author contributes to a scientifically-informed
poetics of procreation. Rather than subscribing to a single biological theory (such
as epigenesis or preformation), these authors take their inspiration from a wide inventory
of procreative motifs and imagery.
