Romantic Sustainability

Endurance and the Natural World, 1780-1830
Herausgeber: Robertson, Ben P.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is an international collection of ecocritical essays that examine sustainability in relation to Romantic-era Britain. It examines Romantic works while interrogating issues of race, gender, religion, and identity, beginning with inspiration and creativity and ending with considerations about extinction and apocalypse.

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Produktdetails

• Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9781498518925
• ISBN-10: 1498518923
• Artikelnr.: 48699488

Autorenporträt

Edited by Ben P. Robertson - Contributions by Lauren Cameron; Kultej Dhariwal; Molly Hall; Madison Jones IV; Olivia Murphy; Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns; Avishek Parui; Emily Paterson-Morgan; Seth Reno; Adam Rosenthal; William Stroup; Michael Angelo Tat

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Inspiration and
the Imagination Chapter 1: Coleridge's "Deep Romantic Chasm": Kubla Khan,
the Valley of Rocks, and the Geomorphological Imagination Adrian J.
Wallbank Chapter 2: Strict Machine: The DILLIAM Eco-Loop Michael Angelo
Tata Chapter 3: Romantic Clouds: Climate, Affect, Hyperobjects Seth T. Reno
Chapter 4: "In Some Untrodden Region of My Mind": Mental Landscapes in
Keats's Poetry Huey-fen Fay Yao Part II: Diets and Consumption Chapter 5:
Sublime Diets: Percy Shelley's Radical Consumption Madison Percy Jones
Chapter 6: The Bloodless Church: Dualist Asceticism and Romantic
Vegetarianism Emily Paterson-Morgan Chapter 7: The Horror of Starvation:
Sustainability in Allan Cunningham's and John Francis Campbell's
Supernatural Tales Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns Part III: Alienation and
Environmental Degradation Chapter 8: First Child in the Woods:
"Nature-Deficit Disorder" and the Future of Romantic Childhood William
Stroup Chapter 9: "The Temple of Folly": Transatlantic "Nature," Nabobs,
and Environmental Degradation in The Woman of Colour Denys Van Renen
Chapter 10: A Pauper's Sustenance: Malthusianism and John Clare's "The
Lament of Swordy Well" Kultej Dhariwal Part IV: Beasts and Monsters Chapter
11: Masculinity, Monstrosity, and Sustainability in Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein Avishek Parui Chapter 12: The Monsters of Zocotora:
Negotiating a Sustainable Identity through the Environment in Elizabeth
Inchbald's Nature and Art Ben P. Robertson Chapter 13:
Wollstonecraft-Unnatural Woman: Between the Nature of the Feminine and a
Gendered Nature Molly Hall Part V: Extinction and Apocalypse Chapter 14:
Shelley and the Limits of Sustainability Adam R. Rosenthal Chapter 15:
Apocalypse Not Quite: Romanticism and the Post-Human World Olivia Murphy
Chapter 16: Questioning Agency: Dehumanizing Sustainability in Mary
Shelley's The Last Man Lauren Cameron About the Contributors Index