Romantic Ecocriticism

Origins and Legacies

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and transhistorical approaches to the proto-ecological early environmental aspects in British and American Romanticism. First, the edition’s transnational approach is evident through transatlantic connections such as, but are not limited to, comparisons among the following writers: William Wordsworth, William Howitt, and Henry D. Thoreau; John Clare and Aldo Leopold; Charles Darwin and Ralph W. Emerson. Second, the transhistorical approach of RomanticEcocriticism is evident in connections among the following writers: William Wordsworth and Emily Bronte; Thomas Malthus and George Gordon Byron; James Hutton and Percy Shelley; Erasmus Darwin and Charlotte Smith; Gilbert White and Dorothy Wordsworth among others. Thus, Romantic Ecocriticism offers a dynamic collection of essays dedicated to links between scientists and literary figures interested in natural history.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-09-11
Mått151 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt458 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEcocritical Theory and Practice
Antal sidor336
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
MedarbetareMcKusick,JamesC.
ISBN9781498518031

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Introduction - Dewey W. HallChapter 1. Ecological Horology: The Nature of Time during the Romantic Period - Marcus TomalinChapter 2. Naturalists’ Interpretations: Daffodils, Swallows, and a Floating Island - Dewey W. HallChapter 3. ‘It cannot be a sin to seek to save an earth-born being’: Radical Ecotheology inByron’s Heaven and Earth - J. Andrew HubbellChapter 4. Process and Presence: Geological Influence and Innovation in Shelley’s ‘Mont Blanc’ - Bryon WilliamsChapter 5. ‘Perpetual Analogies’ and ‘Occult Harmonies’: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Ecological Selves - Kaitlin MondelloChapter 6. An Uncertain Spirit of an Unstable Place: Frankenstein in the Anthropocene - Shalon NobleChapter 7. Wild West and Western Wildness: A Transatlantic Perspective - Jude FrodymaChapter 8. Ecocentering the Self: William Howitt, Thoreau, and the Environmental Imagination - Ryan David LeackChapter 9. Toward a Romantic Poetics of Acknowledgement: Wordsworth, Clare, and Aldo Leopold’s ‘Land Ethi

Romantic Ecocriticism considers how natural philosophy and science informed, and sometimes influenced, 19th-century English and American Romantic writing. The essays tend to dwell on canonical figures; Wordsworth, Byron, the Shelleys, Emerson, and Thoreau play important roles in most of the essays, although the final contributions connect the Romantic movement to 20th-century environmentalism. In putting the collection together, Hall intends to erode the assumption that these Romantic writers were mere idealists by demonstrating the extent to which they drew on contemporaneous theories from the natural sciences. The essays broaden the critical context of Romantic study by traversing national boundaries to highlight thematic connections between US and English Romantic writers. The contributors range from full professors to graduate students, but essays are consistently insightful—sometimes, perhaps, more intriguing for the 19th-century scientific theories that are unveiled than for the critical insights those theories make available. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students; researchers/faculty.