Kurtis Hessel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1377341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kurtis Hessel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kurtis |
| FAMILY NAME | Hessel |
| SIGNATURE | HESSEL K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Romantic-Era Lecture
This essay argues that the conceptual structure of early nineteenth-century chemistry influenced the period’s literary lectures. These distinct pursuits, chemistry and literary criticism, publicly responded in opposed ways to the growing social expectation that schools of knowledge become coherent and specialized. Chemistry’s focus on elements lent it an elegance that contributed to its increasing disciplinary stability. At the same time, this in…
Humphry Davy’s Intergalactic Travel
KURTIS HESSEL Humphry Davy’s Intergalactic Travel: Catching Sight of Another Genre W HEN HUMPHRY DAVY S CONSOLATIONS IN TRAVEL WAS FIRST PRINTED posthumously in 1830 it evoked mixed responses reflecting its dis jointed nature: Davy was pious; he approached heresy. He lived in the “fantastic”; he was “purely scientific.” Yet whether he was a “dying Plato,” an “orthodox Christian or [a] skeptical free-thinker,” critics agreed on the text’s “desult…
Humphry Davy’s Intergalactic Travel
KURTIS HESSEL Humphry Davy’s Intergalactic Travel: Catching Sight of Another Genre W HEN HUMPHRY DAVY S CONSOLATIONS IN TRAVEL WAS FIRST PRINTED posthumously in 1830 it evoked mixed responses reflecting its dis jointed nature: Davy was pious; he approached heresy. He lived in the “fantastic”; he was “purely scientific.” Yet whether he was a “dying Plato,” an “orthodox Christian or [a] skeptical free-thinker,” critics agreed on the text’s “desult…
Humphry Davy’s Intergalactic Travel
KURTIS HESSEL Humphry Davy’s Intergalactic Travel: Catching Sight of Another Genre W HEN HUMPHRY DAVY S CONSOLATIONS IN TRAVEL WAS FIRST PRINTED posthumously in 1830 it evoked mixed responses reflecting its dis jointed nature: Davy was pious; he approached heresy. He lived in the “fantastic”; he was “purely scientific.” Yet whether he was a “dying Plato,” an “orthodox Christian or [a] skeptical free-thinker,” critics agreed on the text’s “desult…
The Romantic-Era Lecture
This essay argues that the conceptual structure of early nineteenth-century chemistry influenced the period’s literary lectures. These distinct pursuits, chemistry and literary criticism, publicly responded in opposed ways to the growing social expectation that schools of knowledge become coherent and specialized. Chemistry’s focus on elements lent it an elegance that contributed to its increasing disciplinary stability. At the same time, this in…
Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Chemistry (1 works) · Concreteness (1 works) · Consilience (1 works) · Consolation (1 works) · Discipline (1 works) · Heresy (1 works)