Shelley and the Revolution in taste
Subtitle: the body and the natural world
By: Timothy Morton.
Series: Cambridge studies in Romanticism
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 -- Political and social views; Body, Human, in literature; Human-animal relationships -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century; Nature conservation -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century; Vegetarianism -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century; Diet -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century; Human-animal relationships in literature; Vegetarianism in literature; Nature in literature; Diet in literature; Romanticism
Description: "This book brings together the themes of diet, consumption, the body, and human relationships with the natural world, in a highly original study of Shelley. A campaigning vegetarian and proto-ecological thinker, Shelley may seem to us curiously modern, but Morton offers an illuminatingly broad context for Shelley's views in eighteenth-century social and political thought concerning the relationships between humanity and nature. The book is at once grounded in the revolutionary history of the period 1790-1820, and informed by current theoretical issues and anthropological and sociological approaches to literature. Morton provides challenging new readings of much-debated poems, plays, and novels by both Percy and Mary Shelley, as well as the first sustained interpretation of Shelley's prose on diet. With its stimulating literary-historical reassessment of questions about nature and culture, this study will provoke fresh discussion about Shelley, Romanticism, and modernity."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-292) and index.