Sharon Ruston

Biographic Data

ID1197573
NAMESharon Ruston
GIVEN NAMESSharon
FAMILY NAMERuston
SIGNATURERUSTON S
AFFILIATIONSLancaster University
ORCID0000-0002-3864-7382
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR10
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Humphry Davy's Notebooks

    Open AccessSharon Ruston, Eleanor Bird et al.ARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…2024

  • The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy, Vol. 3

    Humphry Davy, Tim Fulford et al.EDITORBOOKThe Collected Letters of Sir…2020

  • The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy, Vol. 1

    Humphry Davy, Tim Fulford et al.EDITORBOOKThe Collected Letters of Sir…2020

  • The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy, Vol. 2

    Humphry Davy, Tim Fulford et al.EDITORBOOKThe Collected Letters of Sir…2020

  • The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy, Vol. 4

    Humphry Davy, Tim Fulford et al.EDITORBOOKThe Collected Letters of Sir…2020

  • Humphry Davy to Davies Giddy, 20 October [1800]

    Humphry Davy, Tim Fulford et al.EDITORCHAPTERThe Collected Letters of Sir…2020

    "28. Humphry Davy to Davies Giddy, 20 October [1800]" published on by null.

  • Humphry Davy to Davies Giddy, 14 November 1801

    Humphry Davy, Tim Fulford et al.EDITORCHAPTERThe Collected Letters of Sir…2020

    "45. Humphry Davy to Davies Giddy, 14 November 1801" published on by null.

  • Humphry Davy to Davies Giddy, 8 March 1801

    Humphry Davy, Tim Fulford et al.EDITORCHAPTERThe Collected Letters of Sir…2020

    "39. Humphry Davy to Davies Giddy, 8 March 1801" published on by null.

  • Humphry Davy to Marc-Auguste Pictet, 21 July 1802

    Humphry Davy, Tim Fulford et al.EDITORCHAPTERThe Collected Letters of Sir…2020

    "54. Humphry Davy to Marc-Auguste Pictet, 21 July 1802" published on by null.

  • Humphry Davy to Davies Giddy, 26 March [1812]

    Humphry Davy, Tim Fulford et al.EDITORCHAPTERThe Collected Letters of Sir…2020

    "319. Humphry Davy to Davies Giddy, 26 March [1812]" published on by null.

  • Humphry Davy

    Open AccessSharon RustonARTICLEAmbix2019

    This essay explores how Davy fashioned himself as, what he called in his poetry, a "true philosopher." He defined the "true philosopher" as someone who eschewed monetary gain for his scientific work, preferring instead to give knowledge freely for the public good, and as someone working at a higher level than the mere experimentalist. Specifically, Davy presented himself as using the method of analogy to reach his discoveries and emphasised that …

  • Editing Humphry Davy's letters

    Open AccessTim Fulford, Andrew Lacey et al.ARTICLELiterature Compass2019References: 1

  • Chemistry and the science of transformation in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

    Sharon RustonARTICLENineteenth Century Contexts2019References: 4

    This essay reads the novel in a new way, examining the way that Victor Frankenstein's chemical education (he does not train to be a doctor!) enables his creation of the monster. It reveals that chemists of the period had a different worldview to others where they saw the world in constant transformation and flux. I have written this essay co-written the introduction to the special issue, and co-edited the whole

  • The Medical Dangers of Literary Genius

    Sharon RustonARTICLELiterature and medicine2016

    This essay examines three key texts by William Buchan, Isaac D'Israeli, and Richard Robert Madden, which demonstrate the emergence of the newly conceived idea of literary genius in the Romantic period. It considers the role of a new genre, the "medical biography," in the development of this phenomenon. While the mental precariousness of the Romantic genius has been much commented upon, this essay concentrates instead on the bodily or physical asp…

  • Creating Romanticism

    Open AccessSharon RustonBOOKCreating Romanticism2013

    This book argues that the term 'Romanticism' should be more culturally-inclusive, recognizing the importance of scientific and medical ideas that helped shape some of the key concepts of the period, such as natural rights, the creative imagination and the sublime.

  • Teaching Romanticism

    David Higgins, Sharon RustonEDITORBOOKTeaching Romanticism2010

  • Shelley and Vitality

    Sharon RustonBOOKShelley and Vitality2005

  • Shelley’s Knowledge of the ‘Science of Life’

    Open AccessSharon RustonCHAPTERShelley and Vitality2005

    P.B. Shelley’s decision to become a surgeon after being expelled from Oxford has been seen by many of his biographers as little more than a passing fancy, forgotten as soon as a new interest arose in the shape of Harriet Westbrook. Such an assessment is symptomatic of the way his scientific pursuits have been regarded in the past. Shelley has been represented as slipshod and undisciplined in his research, and this is held as characteristic of the…