Romantic Ecocriticism

Origins and Legacies
Herausgeber: Hall, Dewey W.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 509g
• ISBN-13: 9781498518031
• ISBN-10: 1498518036
• Artikelnr.: 48894319

Autorenporträt

Edited by Dewey W. Hall - Foreword by James C. McKusick - Contributions by Colin Carman; Alicia Carroll; Judyta Frodyma; Dewey W. Hall; Gary Harrison; J. Andrew Hubbell; Ryan David Leack; Kaitlin Mondello; Shalon Noble; Lisa Ottum; Marcus Tomalin and Bryo

Inhaltsangabe

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