List of Figures
A Note About the Cover
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Commerce of Literature and Natural History
Noah Heringman
Part I: The Boundaries of Natural History
1. "Twin Labourers and Heirs of the Same Hopes": The Professional Rivalry of Humphry Davy and William Wordsworth
Catherine E. Ross
2. The Rock Record and Romantic Narratives of the Earth
Noah Heringman
3. "Great Frosts and . . . Some Very Hot Summers": Strange Weather, the Last Letters, and the Last Days in Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne
Stuart Peterfreund
Part II: The Global Reach of Natural History
4. Jefferson's Thermometer: Colonial Biogeographical Constructions of the Climate of America
Alan Bewell
5. Robinson Crusoe's Earthenware Pot: Science, Aesthetics, and the Metaphysics of True Porcelain
Lydia H. Liu
6. Frankenstein, Racial Science, and the "Yellow Peril"
Anne K. Mellor
Part III: Botany, Taxonomy, and Political Discourse
7. Lyrical Strategies, Didactic Intent: Reading the Kitchen Garden Manual
Rachel Crawford
8. Romantic Exemplarity: Botany and "Material" Culture
Theresa M. Kelley
9. Taxonomical Cures: The Politics of Natural History and Herbalist Medicine in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton
Amy Mae King
About the Contributors
Index