Questioning Nature by Melissa Bailes HARDBACK 9780813939766

Questioning Nature\nby Melissa Bailes\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Melissa Bailes\nTitle: Questioning Nature\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Gender studies: women and girls\nPublisher: MP-VIR Uni of Virginia\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9780813939766\nISBN-10: 0813939763\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn the mid-eighteenth century, many British authors and literary critics anxiously claimed that poetry was in crisis. Questioning Nature explores how major women writers - including Mary Shelley, Anna Barbauld, and Charlotte Smith - responded by turning to the era's rising fascination with new discoveries in developing disciplines of natural history such as botany, zoology, and geology.\n\nIn the mid-eighteenth century, many British authors and literary critics anxiou.