A romantic geology : James Hutton's 1788 'Theory of the Earth'

Furniss, Tom (2010) A romantic geology : James Hutton's 1788 'Theory of the Earth'. Romanticism, 16 (3). pp. 305-321. ISSN 1354-991X (https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2010.0105)

Abstract

This article develops a close textual analysis of James Hutton's seminal 1788 'Theory of the Earth' in order to highlight a number of ways that it might be considered as developing a 'Romantic geology' and a Romantic vision of the earth as a self-renewing, endlessly recycling organism.

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Furniss, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9832-940X

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  Item type:	Article
  ID code:	26715
  Dates:	Date Event October 2010 Published
  Keywords:	geology, romanticism, literary theory, earth, English, Literature and Literary Theory
  Subjects:	Language and Literature > English
  Department:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > English
  Depositing user:	Miss Laura Do Nascimento
  Date deposited:	17 Aug 2010 10:35
  Last modified:	01 Nov 2023 09:40
  Related URLs:	http://literatureandscience.research.gla...
  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/26715