{"title":"Renée Bergland","description":"Renée Bergland is professor of literature and creative writing at Simmons University. She is the author of Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer Among the American Romantics and The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects.","products":[{"product_id":"natural-magic-emily-dickinson-charles-darwin-and-the-dawn-of-modern-science-hardcover","title":"Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests, and schoolgirls. The world began to change in the 1830s, while Darwin was a young naturalist aboard the \u003ci\u003eBeagle\u003c\/i\u003e and Dickinson was a student in Amherst, Massachusetts. Poetry and science started to grow apart, and modern thinkers challenged the old orthodoxies, offering thrilling new perspectives that suddenly felt radical--and too dangerous for women. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNatural Magic\u003c\/i\u003e intertwines the stories of these two luminary nineteenth-century minds whose thought and writings captured the awesome possibilities of the new sciences and at the same time strove to preserve the magic of nature. Just as Darwin's work was informed by his roots in natural philosophy and his belief in the interconnectedness of all life, Dickinson's poetry was shaped by her education in botany, astronomy, and chemistry, and by her fascination with the enchanting possibilities of Darwinian science. Casting their two very different careers in an entirely fresh light, Renée Bergland brings to life a time when ideas about science were rapidly evolving, reshaped by poets, scientists, philosophers, and theologians alike. She paints a colorful portrait of a remarkable century that transformed how we see the natural world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIlluminating and insightful, \u003ci\u003eNatural Magic\u003c\/i\u003e explores how Dickinson and Darwin refused to accept the separation of art and science. Today, more than ever, we need to reclaim their shared sense of ecological wonder.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376774775007,"sku":"9780691235288","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/cMNSs-6IA09780691235288.webp?v=1789225304"},{"product_id":"natural-magic-emily-dickinson-charles-darwin-and-the-dawn-of-modern-science-paperback","title":"Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests, and schoolgirls. The world began to change in the 1830s, while Darwin was a young naturalist aboard the \u003ci\u003eBeagle\u003c\/i\u003e and Dickinson was a student in Amherst, Massachusetts. Poetry and science started to grow apart, and modern thinkers challenged the old orthodoxies, offering thrilling new perspectives that suddenly felt radical--and too dangerous for women. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNatural Magic\u003c\/i\u003e intertwines the stories of these two luminary nineteenth-century minds whose thought and writings captured the awesome possibilities of the new sciences and at the same time strove to preserve the magic of nature. Just as Darwin's work was informed by his roots in natural philosophy and his belief in the interconnectedness of all life, Dickinson's poetry was shaped by her education in botany, astronomy, and chemistry, and by her fascination with the enchanting possibilities of Darwinian science. Casting their two very different careers in an entirely fresh light, Renée Bergland brings to life a time when ideas about science were rapidly evolving, reshaped by poets, scientists, philosophers, and theologians alike. She paints a colorful portrait of a remarkable century that transformed how we see the natural world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIlluminating and insightful, \u003ci\u003eNatural Magic\u003c\/i\u003e explores how Dickinson and Darwin refused to accept the separation of art and science. Today, more than ever, we need to reclaim their shared sense of ecological wonder.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376775069919,"sku":"9780691235301","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/YcHEfBPNyq9780691235301.webp?v=1789225305"},{"product_id":"maria-mitchell-and-the-sexing-of-science-an-astronomer-among-the-american-romantics-paperback","title":"Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer among the American Romantics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe story of one of America's first professional astronomers and the changes that led to science being a male-dominated field\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere are a number of intellectual women from the 19th century whose crucial roles in the philosophical, social, and scientific debates that roiled the era have not been fully examined.Among them is the astronomer Maria Mitchell. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGiven the relative dearth of women scientists today, most of us assume that science has always been a masculine domain. But as Renée Bergland reminds us, science and humanities were not seen as separate spheres in the nineteenth century; indeed, before the Civil War, women flourished in science and mathematics, disciplines that were considered less politically threatening and less profitable than the humanities. Mitchell apprenticed with her father, an amateur astronomer; taught herself the higher math of the day; and for years regularly \"swept\" the clear Nantucket night sky with the telescope in her rooftop observatory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1847, thanks to these diligent sweeps, Mitchell discovered a comet and was catapulted to international fame. Within a few years she was one of America's first professional astronomers; as \"computer of Venus\"--a sort of human calculator--for the U.S. Navy's Nautical Almanac, she calculated the planet's changing position. After an intellectual tour of Europe that included a winter in Rome with Sophia and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mitchell was invited to join the founding faculty at Vassar College, where she spent her later years mentoring the next generation of women astronomers. Tragically, opportunities for her students dried up over the next few decades as the increasingly male scientific establishment began to close ranks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMitchell protested this cultural shift in vain. In this compulsively readable biography, Renée Bergland chronicles the ideological, academic, and economic changes that led to the original sexing of science--now so familiar that most of us have never known it any other way.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51379059851487,"sku":"9780807021439","price":25.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/T4t0FhUaJz9780807021439.webp?v=1789268458"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/renee-bergland.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}