Perverse Romanticism Elizabeth Jennings their settlement quickly grew to

their settlement quickly grew to become the epicenter of a transatlantic religious movement

moments of crisis and transformation are also opportunities for overturning conventions

culminating in a dramatic event

what irked them and their capacity for work

Avoiding both the heaven of our fantasies and the hell of our own making

Perverse Romanticism Elizabeth Jennings their settlement quickly grew toRichard C. Sha's revealing study considers how science shaped notions of sexuality, reproduction, and gender in the Romantic period. Through careful and imaginative readings of various scientific texts, the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Longinus, and the works of such writers as William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Lord Byron, Sha explores the influence of contemporary aesthetics and biology on literary Romanticism.