Title: Shelley and the Revolution in taste
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.
Subjects: Body, Human, in literature, Diet, Diet in literature, History, Human-animal relationships, Human-animal relationships in literature, Nature conservation, Nature in literature, Political and social views, Public opinion, Romanticism, Vegetarianism, Vegetarianism in literature, Shelley, percy bysshe, 1792-1822, Human body in literature, Human Body, In literature, Vegetarian Diet
People: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Time periods: 18th century