Romantic Sustainability

Endurance and the Natural World, 1780-1830
Herausgeber: Robertson, Ben P.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an international collection of ecocritical essays that examine sustainability in relation to Romantic-era Britain. It examines Romantic works while interrogating issues of race, gender, religion, and identity, beginning with inspiration and creativity and ending with considerations about extinction and apocalypse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9781498518925
• ISBN-10: 1498518923
• Artikelnr.: 48699488

Autorenporträt

Ben P. Robertson is professor of English at Troy University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Inspiration and the Imagination
Chapter 1: Coleridge's "Deep Romantic Chasm": Kubla Khan, the Valley of
Rocks, and the Geomorphological Imagination
Adrian J. Wallbank
Chapter 2: Strict Machine: The DILLIAM Eco-Loop
Michael Angelo Tata
Chapter 3: Romantic Clouds: Climate, Affect, Hyperobjects
Seth T. Reno
Chapter 4: "In Some Untrodden Region of My Mind": Mental Landscapes in
Keats's Poetry Huey-fen Fay Yao
Part II: Diets and Consumption
Chapter 5: Sublime Diets: Percy Shelley's Radical Consumption
Madison Percy Jones
Chapter 6: The Bloodless Church: Dualist Asceticism and Romantic
Vegetarianism
Emily Paterson-Morgan
Chapter 7: The Horror of Starvation: Sustainability in Allan Cunning