The Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism, 1790-1837 [electronic resource] /
Castellano, Katey.author.
Analyzing Romantic conservative critiques of modernity found in literature, philosophy, natural history, and agricultural periodicals, this book finds a common theme in the 'intergenerational imagination.' This impels an environmental ethic in which obligations to past and future generations shape decisions about inherited culture and land.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- PART I: IMAGINATION -- Introduction: Conservatism and the Intergenerational Imagination -- 1. Intergenerational Imagination in Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France -- 2. 'Their graves are green': Conservation in William Wordsworth's Epitaphic Ballads -- PART II: HABITATION -- 3. The Politics of the Miniature in Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds -- 4. Conservation or Catastrophe: Reflexive Regionalism in Maria Edgeworth's Irish Tales -- 5. Subsistence as Resistance: William Cobbett's Food Politics -- 6. Anthropomorphism and the Critique of Liberal Rights in John Clare's Enclosure Elegies -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Analyzing Romantic conservative critiques of modernity found in literature, philosophy, natural history, and agricultural periodicals, this book finds a common theme in the 'intergenerational imagination.' This impels an environmental ethic in which obligations to past and future generations shape decisions about inherited culture and land.
British literature.
Environment.
Literature, Modern.
Fiction.
Poetry.
British and Irish Literature.
Environment, general.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Fiction.
Poetry and Poetics.