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Romantic Ecocriticism : Origins and Legacies.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ecocritical Theory and Practice SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (312 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498518024
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Romantic EcocriticismDDC classification:
  • 810.936
LOC classification:
  • PN98.E36
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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