Overview
Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Cited Introduction: A New Dawn What is Life? The Vitality Debate Materialism and Atheism PART 1: THE VITALITY DEBATE, 1814-19 Vitality and Radical Scientists Humphry Davy and Romantic Scientist Abernethy and Lawrence After 1819 PART 2: SHELLEY'S KNOWLEDGE OF THE 'SCIENCE OF LIFE' 1811 Shelley and Bart's Lawrence and the Bracknell Circle Shelley's Notes on Davy PART 3: THE POLITICAL BODY: PROMETHEUS UNBOUND The Furies and Animal Life Electricity as Life Earth as a Living Being Utopian New Life PART 4: 'THE PAINTED VEIL': DEFINING LIFE Sensibility and the Figure of the Poet Mutability The Painted Veil Materialism PART 5: 'THE POETRY OF LIFE' Life Cycles Vitally Metaphorical Posthumous Life Beginnings and Endings Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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- ISBN-13: 9781349514090
- ISBN-10: 1349514098
- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Publish Date: January 2012
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.51 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.63 pounds
- Page Count: 231
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