Heringman, Noah
Deep Time: A Literary History
- ISBN 13:
- 9780691235790
- author:
- Heringman, Noah
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2023
- Pages:
- 320
- Dimensions:
- 23.1 x 15.5 x 2.3 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Science, History, Science,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Deep Time: A Literary History challenges the exclusive association between deep time and the modern science of geology by focusing on late Enlightenment writings that integrated new empirical data and methods with Western and non-Western traditions of chronology, earth history, and human origins. The book explores how deep time became associated with Earth history, expanding its conceptual domain to include colonial natural history, oral tradition, and scientific romance. It considers the conceptual opening of a modern geological timescale in literary, scientific, and travel writing of the late-Enlightenment/Romantic period. Through its chapters on the explorer-naturalist team of John Reinhold and George Forster, Buffon's protogeochronological Epochs of Nature, Herder, Blake, and prehistory through oral tradition, and Charles Darwin's dialogue with anthropology and archaeology, the book sheds light on the intersections of literature, science, and travel in shaping our understanding of time and the natural world.
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