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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

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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.

Item type: Article
ID code: 26715
Keywords: geology, romanticism, literary theory, earth, English, Literature and Literary Theory
Subjects: Language and Literature > English
Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > English
Depositing user: Miss Laura Do Nascimento
Date deposited: 17 Aug 2010 10:35
Last modified: 28 Jul 2017 04:43
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URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/26715
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