Deep Time : : A Literary History / / Noah Heringman.
How the concept of “deep time” began as a metaphor used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesIn this interdisciplinary book, Noah Heringman argues that the concept of “deep time”—most often associated with geological epochs—began as a metaphorical languag...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 16 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction. Deep Time: A Counterhistory
- 1 Primitive Rocks and Primitive Customs: Geological and Human Time in the Pacific Voyage Narratives of John Reinhold and George Forster
- 2 The “Profoundest Depths of Time” in Buffon’s Epochs of Nature
- 3 William Blake, the Ballad Revival, and the Deep Past of Poetry
- 4 The Descent into Deep Time in Darwin and Lubbock: Voyage Narrative, Comparative Method, and Human Animality
- Afterword. Evolutionary Nostalgia and the Romance of Origins
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A NOTE ON THE TYPE