Romantic Ecocriticism (eBook)

Origins and Legacies

Dewey W. Hall (Herausgeber)

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2016
336 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1802-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies examines the influence of the science of the age upon a host of English and American authors. The collection of essays 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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Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and transhistorical approaches to the proto-ecological early environmental aspects in British and American Romanticism. First, the edition's transnational approach is evident through transatlantic connections such as, but are not limited to, comparisons among the following writers: William Wordsworth, William Howitt, and Henry D. Thoreau; John Clare and Aldo Leopold; Charles Darwin and Ralph W. Emerson. Second, the transhistorical approach of RomanticEcocriticism is evident in connections among the following writers: William Wordsworth and Emily Bronte; Thomas Malthus and George Gordon Byron; James Hutton and Percy Shelley; Erasmus Darwin and Charlotte Smith; Gilbert White and Dorothy Wordsworth among others. Thus, Romantic Ecocriticism offers a dynamic collection of essays dedicated to links between scientists and literary figures interested in natural history.

Autor

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).

Inhalt

Introduction - Dewey W. HallChapter 1. Ecological Horology: The Nature of Time during the Romantic Period - Marcus TomalinChapter 2. Naturalists’ Interpretations: Daffodils, Swallows, and a Floating Island - Dewey W. HallChapter 3. ‘It cannot be a sin to seek to save an earth-born being’: Radical Ecotheology inByron’s Heaven and Earth - J. Andrew HubbellChapter 4. Process and Presence: Geological Influence and Innovation in Shelley’s ‘Mont Blanc’ - Bryon WilliamsChapter 5. ‘Perpetual Analogies’ and ‘Occult Harmonies’: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Ecological Selves - Kaitlin MondelloChapter 6. An Uncertain Spirit of an Unstable Place: Frankenstein in the Anthropocene - Shalon NobleChapter 7. Wild West and Western Wildness: A Transatlantic Perspective - Jude FrodymaChapter 8. Ecocentering the Self: William Howitt, Thoreau, and the Environmental Imagination -Ryan David LeackChapter 9. Toward a Romantic Poetics of Acknowledgement: Wordsworth, Clare, and Aldo Leopold’s ‘Land Ethic’ - Gary HarrisonChapter 10. Small is Beautiful: Rethinking Localism from Wordsworth to Eliot - Alicia CarrollChapter 11. Byron’s Flower Power: Ecology and Effeminacy in Sardanapalus -Colin CarmanChapter 12. The Miseducation of Chris McCandless: Romanticism, Reading, and Environmental Education - Lisa Ottum

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Co-Autor: Shalon Noble, Lisa Ottum, Marcus Tomalin, Bryon Williams, Colin Carman, Alicia Carroll, Judyta Frodyma, Dewey W. Hall, Gary Harrison, J. Andrew Hubbell, Ryan David Leack, Kaitlin Mondello
• Vorwort: James C. McKusick
• Zusatzinfo: 4 Illustrations including: - 4 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: Anthropocene • Cultural Ecology • Early Environmentalism • Ecocriticism • Ecological Localism • ecological self • Ecopoetics • Environmental education • Proto-Environmentalism • Romanticism
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-1802-8 / 1498518028
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-1802-4 / 9781498518024