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Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History investigates the profound relationship between literary innovation and scientific thought in nineteenth-century America. Juliana Chow demonstrates how American writers absorbed, transformed, and contested the concepts and methodologies of natural history during a period of rapid scientific advancement and westward expansion.
The book traces how major literary figures engaged with natural history as both a subject matter and a mode of representation, reshaping American literature in the process. Chow argues that understanding this discourse is essential to comprehending nineteenth-century American literature’s development and its unique contributions to world letters. Through careful textual analysis and historical contextualization, this study reveals the deep interconnections between scientific inquiry and artistic expression that defined the era.
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