German Romanticism and Science

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German Romanticism and Science is written by Jocelyn Holland and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1135850178 (ISBN 10) and 9781135850173 (ISBN 13).

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.