Deep time : a literary history
In this interdisciplinary book, Noah Heringman argues that the concept of "deep time"-most often associated with geological epochs-began as a metaphorical language used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the origins of life beyond...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University press
2023.
Paris : Cyberlibris |
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université Orléans et IFPM |
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Deep time, a literary history, Noah Heringman, 2023, Princeton, Princeton University press, 1 volume (XV-297 pages), 978-0-691-23579-0 |
Taula de continguts:
- Primitive rocks and primitive customs: geological and human time in the Pacific voyage narratives of John Reinhold and George Foster
- The "Profoundest depths of time" in Buffon's Epochs of nature
- William Blake, the ballad revival, and the deep past of poetry
- The descent into deep time in Darwin and Lubbock: voyages narrative, comparative method, and human animality
- Afterword. Evolutionary nostalgia and the romance of origins