Matthew Rowney

In Common Things

Commerce, Culture, and Ecology in British Romantic Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

In Common Things explores the implacable agency of common substances in the life and literature of the Romantic period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 150mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781487543488
• ISBN-10: 1487543484
• Artikelnr.: 62849346

Autorenporträt

Matthew Rowney is an assistant professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: In Common Things
1. "The Bones of the World": Mary Wollstonecraft’s Social Geology
2. "Broken Arbour": The Ruined Cottage and Deforestation
3. "Strange Look’d it There!": The Paradox of the Palm in the Poetry of
Felicia Hemans
4. Preserver and Destroyer: Salt in The History of Mary Prince
5. "Lin’d with Moss": John Clare’s Rhizomatic Poetics