Embodiment, Aesthetics, and Ethics in Romantic Literature and Science

Embodiment, Aesthetics, and Ethics in Romantic Literature and Science makes an unprecedented intervention into debates about Romantic organicism, a topic that has long been dismissed as a failed ideological project that belongs to an earlier era of scholarship. Examining writings by David Hartley, Erasmus Darwin, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth, Lisa Ann Robertson recuperates organicism as a crucial aesthetic and ethical category. Organicism remains relevant today because it offe