Dana Luciano, How the Earth Feels
Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21798421 |
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| Authors | Antoine Traisnel (University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transatlantica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1765-2766 • E-ISSN: 1765-2766 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/11x3k |
| OpenAlex | W4400245529 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
How the Earth Feels explores the effects and affects prompted by the popularization of geology at the turn of the nineteenth century in the United States. The “fashionable science,” as it was called at the time, shattered the then-predominant Biblical chronology in which time elapsed in human generations. No longer coeval with the creation of mankind, the earth was revealed in its ancestrality as a formidable lively force with the power to shape and shake up human destinies. Yet even as the
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| Highly cited | No |
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