The essays in this volume move beyond the notation of
literary influence or ideological parallelism to
perform a functional taxonomy of transatlantic
Romanticism, helping to...
The Temple of Nature
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The Progress of Society (early draft of The Temple of Nature)
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Original publication date
1802
Published @ RC
October 2006
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- romantic psychology
- Romantic science
- botany
- materialism
- Temple of Nature
- Origin of Society
- scientific poetry
- didactic poetry
- deist poetry
- Romantic medicine
- evolutionary theory
- English Enlightenment
- Eleusinian Mysteries
- Egyptian and Greek mythology
- Hieroglyphics
- Freemasonry
- Lucretius
- De Rerum Natura
- the Lunar Society
- zoology
- theories of reproduction
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