Chris Washington

Romantic Revelations

Visions of Post-Apocalyptic Life and Hope in the Anthropocene

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Produktbeschreibung

Romantic Revelations argues that Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, John Clare, and Jane Austen sketch out a post-apocalyptic world that is paradoxically the vision that offers us hope. Washington contends that these authors craft an optimistic vision of the future that leads to a new politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 573g
• ISBN-13: 9781487504502
• ISBN-10: 1487504500
• Artikelnr.: 54613759

Autorenporträt

By Chris Washington

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: There Is a Light That Never Goes Out?
1. The Mind Is Its Own Place: What Percy Shelley's Mountain Did Not Say
2. No More Cakes and Ale, Only Oil Slicks: Mary Shelley’s Post-Apocalyptic
State of Nature
3. Byron’s Speculative Turn: The Biopolitics of Paradise
4. Birds Do It, Bees Do It: John Clare, Biopolitics, and the Nonhuman
Origins of Love
5. The Best of All Possible End of the Worlds: Jane Austen’s Frankenstein,
or Love in the Ruins
Coda: After Extinctualism: Hope for Life
Notes
Bibliography
Index