Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: ""Infant Bud of Being""; 1 ""Blank Misgivings"": Infancy in Wordsworth's Ode; 2 ""When I First Saw the Child"": Reverie in Erasmus Darwin and Coleridge; 3 Merging and Emerging in the Work of Sara Coleridge; 4 Bodies in Dissolve: Animal Magnetism and Infancy in Shelley; 5 Stillborn Poetics and Tennyson's Songs; Afterword: ""An Echo to the Self"": Augusta Webster's Psychoanalytic Thought; Bibliography; Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Revelation, reason, ridicule: the scientific sublime -- A taste of God: natural theology and the aesthetics of Intelligent Design -- Beauty with a past: evolutionary aesthetics in Erasmus Darwin's The temple of nature…”
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“…The book discusses a range of authors including Joanna Baillie, Edmund Burke, Erasmus Darwin, William Godwin, Joseph Priestly, Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…: narrating nature in Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden (1791) / Ann Shteir -- Elective affinities/Wahlverwandtschaften : the career of a metaphor / Christian P. …”

“…Sha also shows how the imagination was used in the scientific community, highlighting as primary examples the work of Davy, Faraday, Priestley, Kant, Mary Somerville, Oersted, Marcet, Swedenborg, Blumenbach, Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, and Von Baer, among others. Both fields profited from thinking about how the imagination could cooperate with reason and how hypotheses that had the possibility of actuality could benefit their work" --…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Avant-propos -- Table des Matières -- Introduction -- The Loves of the Plants d'Erasmus Darwin : enjeux d'écriture et de traduction -- Les imaginaires de la fin de l'homme : Grainville et Nodier face à l'économie de la nature -- Traductrice et traducteurs français de Charles Darwin au XIXe siècle : un chemin difficile, de la Suisse à la France -- Flourens lecteur de Darwin (ou de Clémence Royer ?) …”

“…But they also point to many authors rarely if ever previously cited in Tennyson editions and studies, including Michael Drayton, Richard Blackmore, Isaac Watts, Erasmus Darwin, John Ogilvie, Anna Lætitia Barbauld, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, John Wilson, and—with surprising frequency—Felicia Hemans. …”