Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism [electronic resource] : Toward Urbanatural Roosting /
Nichols, A.author.
Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about 21st-century ideas of nature.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: urbanatural roosting -- Spring, vernal roosting: romantic ecocriticism: March: a new urbanatural year & the history of natural history; April: poetry and science & nature as culture, culture as society; May: species science & saving cities, saving tigers -- Summer, estival roosting: ecocriticism: June: vestiges of time & Thoreau and urbanature; July: wild animals have no souls & ecomorphic urbanature; August: the loves of plants and animals & romantic poetry and pleasures of nature -- Fall, autumnal roosting: urbanature: September: natural pleasure to natural pain & perfect bird, perfect poem; October: hawks I have watched & urbanatural roosting on display; November: science and poetry & a hard rain's gonna fall 182 -- Winter, hibernal roosting: beyond romantic ecocriticism: December: zoos: romantic rhinos & Victorian vipers; January: displaying human beings & romantic urbanature; February: death and dying & ecomorphic ecocentrism.
Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about 21st-century ideas of nature.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Literature-Philosophy.
Poetry.
America-Literatures.
British literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Poetry and Poetics.
North American Literature.
British and Irish Literature.