This book examines the influence of the science of the age upon a host of English and American authors. The collection develops transhistorical and transnational perspectives to examine the invaluable place of Romantic literary studies as inspiration behind the rise of early environmentalism in the nineteenth century and its subsequent legacies.
This book examines the influence of the science of the age upon a host of English and American authors. The collection develops transhistorical and transnational perspectives to examine the invaluable place of Romantic literary studies as inspiration behind the rise of early environmentalism in the nineteenth century and its subsequent legacies.
Dewey W. Hall is professor of English at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is also the author of Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists: An Ecocritical Study, 1789-1912 (2014).
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Introduction - Dewey W. Hall Chapter 1. Ecological Horology: The Nature of Time during the Romantic Period - Marcus Tomalin Chapter 2. Naturalists' Interpretations: Daffodils, Swallows, and a Floating Island - Dewey W. Hall Chapter 3. 'It cannot be a sin to seek to save an earth-born being': Radical Ecotheology in Byron's Heaven and Earth - J. Andrew Hubbell Chapter 4. Process and Presence: Geological Influence and Innovation in Shelley's 'Mont Blanc' - Bryon Williams Chapter 5. 'Perpetual Analogies' and 'Occult Harmonies': Ralph Waldo Emerson's Ecological Selves - Kaitlin Mondello Chapter 6. An Uncertain Spirit of an Unstable Place: Frankenstein in the Anthropocene - Shalon Noble Chapter 7. Wild West and Western Wildness: A Transatlantic Perspective - Jude Frodyma Chapter 8. Ecocentering the Self: William Howitt, Thoreau, and the Environmental Imagination - Ryan David Leack Chapter 9. Toward a Romantic Poetics of Acknowledgement: Wordsworth, Clare, and Aldo Leopold's 'Land Ethic' - Gary Harrison Chapter 10. Small is Beautiful: Rethinking Localism from Wordsworth to Eliot - Alicia Carroll Chapter 11. Byron's Flower Power: Ecology and Effeminacy in Sardanapalus - Colin Carman Chapter 12. The Miseducation of Chris McCandless: Romanticism, Reading, and Environmental Education - Lisa Ottum
Introduction - Dewey W. Hall Chapter 1. Ecological Horology: The Nature of Time during the Romantic Period - Marcus Tomalin Chapter 2. Naturalists' Interpretations: Daffodils, Swallows, and a Floating Island - Dewey W. Hall Chapter 3. 'It cannot be a sin to seek to save an earth-born being': Radical Ecotheology in Byron's Heaven and Earth - J. Andrew Hubbell Chapter 4. Process and Presence: Geological Influence and Innovation in Shelley's 'Mont Blanc' - Bryon Williams Chapter 5. 'Perpetual Analogies' and 'Occult Harmonies': Ralph Waldo Emerson's Ecological Selves - Kaitlin Mondello Chapter 6. An Uncertain Spirit of an Unstable Place: Frankenstein in the Anthropocene - Shalon Noble Chapter 7. Wild West and Western Wildness: A Transatlantic Perspective - Jude Frodyma Chapter 8. Ecocentering the Self: William Howitt, Thoreau, and the Environmental Imagination - Ryan David Leack Chapter 9. Toward a Romantic Poetics of Acknowledgement: Wordsworth, Clare, and Aldo Leopold's 'Land Ethic' - Gary Harrison Chapter 10. Small is Beautiful: Rethinking Localism from Wordsworth to Eliot - Alicia Carroll Chapter 11. Byron's Flower Power: Ecology and Effeminacy in Sardanapalus - Colin Carman Chapter 12. The Miseducation of Chris McCandless: Romanticism, Reading, and Environmental Education - Lisa Ottum
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