Literature, science and exploration in the Romantic era: bodies of knowledge

Bodies of knowledge

I: Exploration, science and literature

Sir Joseph Banks and his networks

Tahiti in London: London in Tahiti: tools of power

Indian flowers and Romantic orientalism

Mental travellers: banks, African exploration and the Romantic imagination

Banks, Bligh and the breadfruit: slave plantations, tropical islands and the rhetoric of Romanticism

Exploration, headhunting and race theory: the skill beneath the skin

Theories of terrestrial magnetism and the search for the poles

II: British science and literature in the context of empire

'Man electrified man': Romantic revolution and the legacy of Benjamin Franklin

The beast within: vaccination, Romanticism and the Jefferation of disease

Britain's little black boys and the technologies of benevolence.