Romantic Ecocriticism : Origins and Legacies.
Hall, Dewey W.
Romantic Ecocriticism : Origins and Legacies. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (312 pages) - Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series . - Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One: Toward Origins -- Section I: The Role of Natural Philosophy and Religion -- 1 Ecological Horology -- 2 Naturalists' Interpretations -- The Role of Evolutionary Thought -- 3 "It cannot be a sin to seek to save an earth-born being" -- 4 Process and Presence -- 5 "Perpetual Analogies" and "Occult Harmonies" -- 6 An Uncertain Spirit of an Unstable Place -- Part Two: Emerging Legacies -- Transatlantic Connections -- 7 Wild West and Western Wildness -- 8 Ecocentering the Self -- 9 Toward a Romantic Poetics of Acknowledgment -- Ecological and Environmental Contexts -- 10 Small Is Beautiful -- 11 Byron's Flower Power -- 12 The Miseducation of Chris McCandless -- Appendix -- Selected Bibliography of Ecocritical Works -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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.
9781498518024
Environmentalism in literature.
Electronic books.
PN98.E36
810.936
Romantic Ecocriticism : Origins and Legacies. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (312 pages) - Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series . - Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One: Toward Origins -- Section I: The Role of Natural Philosophy and Religion -- 1 Ecological Horology -- 2 Naturalists' Interpretations -- The Role of Evolutionary Thought -- 3 "It cannot be a sin to seek to save an earth-born being" -- 4 Process and Presence -- 5 "Perpetual Analogies" and "Occult Harmonies" -- 6 An Uncertain Spirit of an Unstable Place -- Part Two: Emerging Legacies -- Transatlantic Connections -- 7 Wild West and Western Wildness -- 8 Ecocentering the Self -- 9 Toward a Romantic Poetics of Acknowledgment -- Ecological and Environmental Contexts -- 10 Small Is Beautiful -- 11 Byron's Flower Power -- 12 The Miseducation of Chris McCandless -- Appendix -- Selected Bibliography of Ecocritical Works -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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.
9781498518024
Environmentalism in literature.
Electronic books.
PN98.E36
810.936