Jon Klancher, Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age and  Roderick Tweedy, The God of the Left Hemisphere: Blake, Bolte Taylor, and the Myth of Creation

Robert Mitchell

Jon Klancher, Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age and Roderick Tweedy, The God of the Left Hemisphere: Blake, Bolte Taylor, and the Myth of Creation

Authors

Robert Mitchell Duke University

Keywords:

Jon Klancher, Theory of Knowledge, Institutions, History of Science, History of the Book, Humphry Davy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Roderick Tweedy, William Blake, Jill Bolte Taylor, Neuroscience, Metaphysics, Creation, God, Myth, Violence

Abstract

Review by Robert Mitchell (Duke University) of Jon Klancher, Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 322. £60. ISBN 9781107029101 and Roderick Tweedy, The God of the Left Hemisphere: Blake, Bolte Taylor, and the Myth of Creation. London: Karnac Books, 2013. Pp. 352. £23.89. ISBN 1780491018.