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.
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.
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
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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
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
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