Romantic Ecocriticism
Subtitle: Origins and Legacies
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781498518017
Subjects: Nature in literature; Environmentalism; English literature, history and criticism, 19th century; American literature, history and criticism, 19th century; Romanticism, united states; Romanticism, great britain
Description: "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 Romantic Ecocriticism 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." -- Publisher's description