Natural magic Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the dawn of modern science
"A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature. Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests, and schoolgirls. The world began to chang...
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[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: An orchis' heart
- Introduction: An enchanted world
- Darwin and Dickinson, childhood portraits
- Darwin the naturalist: Shropshire, Edinburgh, Cambridge, 1809-1831; Darwin, to age 22
- Nature's people: Scientific Amherst: Amherst, 1830-1836; Dickinson, to age 6
- Juggler, geologist, dark horse: Aboard the Beagle, 1832-1836; Darwin, age 23-27
- Dickinson the bold: Amherst, 1836-1847; Dickinson, age 6-16
- The leading scientific men: London and Amherst, 1836-1845
- Religion of geology: South Hadley, Amherst, 1847-1851; Dickinson, age 16-20
- A slow-sailing ship: Downe, Great Malvern, 1842-1851; Darwin, age 33-42
- Excitement in the village: Amherst, 1851-1857; Dickinson, age 20-26
- On the origin of species: Downe, 1858-1860; Darwin, age 49-51
- If you saw a bullet: Amherst, 1857-1861; Dickinson, age 26-31
- Wild experiment: Downe and Amherst, 1860-1862
- Melody or witchcraft?: Amherst, 1862-1866
- Mutual friends: Downe and Amherst, 1866-1882
- Perfectly disinterested: Darwin's last days
- Nature is a haunted house: Dickinson faces death
- Afterword: Hope is a strange invention: Darwin and Dickinson in the twenty-first century.
