Poetry and Science

Tate, Gregory

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“…Not quite on the same epic scale as Blind's ‘totalizing account of history’ in The Ascent of Man (Tate 2017, 109), Louisa Sarah Bevington's ‘Unto this Present’ (1879, 5–21) nevertheless offers an additional dimension to the female evolutionary epic by linking it explicitly to the political movement of anarchism, demonstrating as Jackie Dees Domingues writes how Bevington ‘used the language of evolutionary processes […] to substantiate the aptness of anarchist theory’ (2000, 27). It is again Peter Kropotkin who provides a socio-political echo for Bevington's poetry.…”

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‘Life built herself a myriad forms’: epics of gestation and co-operation in late nineteenth-century women’s poetry

Funk

2023

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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This article argues for a specifically female appropriation and reshaping of the epic tradition in the wake of Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Based on an analysis of Mathilde Blind's The Ascent of Man and Louisa Sarah Bevington's 'Unto this Present', it will show how this 'female evolutionary epic' responds to and counteracts Social Darwinist narratives of competition and struggle by emphasizing forces of (maternal) gestation, co-operation and sympathy in the development of life on earth. In doing so, these poems anticipate Peter Kropotkin's notion of 'mutual aid' as the primary factor in evolution.

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‘Life built herself a myriad forms’: epics of gestation and co-operation in late nineteenth-century women’s poetry

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2023

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Natural Philosophy

McGrath

2022

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In the seventeenth century, natural philosophy was seen as an integrated enterprise, embracing what are now seen as separate disciplines, such as philosophy, the natural sciences, mathematics, and theology. Although often portrayed as a now redundant precursor of the natural sciences, natural philosophy was far more than this, enfolding the two quite different notions of learning about and learning from nature. This book argues for the retrieval of the ‘disciplinary imaginary’ of natural philosophy. The first part of the work explores how this idea emerged in the writings of Aristotle, and achieved its greatest influence in the seventeenth century. It offers a critical conversation with leading representatives of the movement—such as Johann Kepler, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton—to clarify its scope and significance, as well as identifying the factors causing the decline of the movement in the nineteenth century. The second part of the book sets out a comprehensive account of how natural philosophy can be retrieved and reimagined. Drawing on recent discussions of progress in philosophy, it argues that a retrieved natural philosophy can hold together both the objective and subjective aspects of the human engagement with the natural world. Using Mary Midgley’s approach to safeguarding the complexity of nature and Karl Popper’s model of the ‘three worlds’ of human knowledge—objective, subjective, and theoretical—the book offers a comprehensive vision of the scope of a revitalized natural philosophy, and the benefits this brings to the human understanding and appreciation of nature.

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‘Life built herself a myriad forms’: epics of gestation and co-operation in late nineteenth-century women’s poetry

‘Life built herself a myriad forms’: epics of gestation and co-operation in late nineteenth-century women’s poetry

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