Romanticism and the materiality of nature
By: Onno Oerlemans.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Romanticism -- Great Britain; Nature in literature
Description: "Given current environmental concerns, it is not surprising to find literary critics and theorists surveying the Romantic poets with ecological hindsight. In this study Onno Oerlemans extends these current ecocritical views by synthesizing a range of viewpoints from the Romantic period. He explores not only the ideas of poets and artists, but also those of philosophers, scientists, and explorers."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; title: vii; title: Introduction; title: Romanticism, Environmentalism, and the Material Sublime; title: 3; title: I; title: The End of the World: Wordsworth, Nature, Elegy; title: 30; title: II; title: The Meanest Thing That Feels: Anthropomorphizing Animals; title: in Romanticism; title: 65; title: III; title: Shelley's Ideal Body: Vegetarianism, Revolution, and Nature; title: 98; title: IV; title: Romanticism and the Metaphysics of Classification; title: I23; title: V; title: Moving through the Environment: Travel and Romanticism; title: 148.