Insect Societies and Social Butterflies: Natural History and Sociability in the Romantic Period
Grant number: DP0556765
Abstract
During the eighteenth century, the Pacific islands and New Holland replaced America as the testing ground for ideas about the state of natural man and the origins of society. In looking at Enlightenment ideas about the natural, the human, and the social, this project will help us to learn more about ourselves as the dominant species.