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Romantic Ecocriticism

Author : Dewey W. Hall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498518028
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Ecocriticism written by Dewey W. Hall and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and transhistorical approaches to the proto-ecological early environmental aspects in British and American Romanticism. First, the edition’s transnational approach is evident through transatlantic connections such as, but are not limited to, comparisons among the following writers: William Wordsworth, William Howitt, and Henry D. Thoreau; John Clare and Aldo Leopold; Charles Darwin and Ralph W. Emerson. Second, the transhistorical approach of RomanticEcocriticism is evident in connections among the following writers: William Wordsworth and Emily Bronte; Thomas Malthus and George Gordon Byron; James Hutton and Percy Shelley; Erasmus Darwin and Charlotte Smith; Gilbert White and Dorothy Wordsworth among others. Thus, Romantic Ecocriticism offers a dynamic collection of essays dedicated to links between scientists and literary figures interested in natural history.

The Green Studies Reader

Author : Laurence Coupe
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415204064
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Green Studies Reader written by Laurence Coupe and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurence Coupe brings together a collection of extracts from a wide range of both historical and contemporary ecocritical texts.

Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism

Author : A. Nichols
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230117996
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism written by A. Nichols and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about 21st-century ideas of nature.

Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism

Author : A. Nichols
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349287093
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism written by A. Nichols and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about 21st-century ideas of nature.

Feminist Ecocriticism

Author : Douglas A. Vakoch
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073917682X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Ecocriticism written by Douglas A. Vakoch and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After uncovering the oppressive dichotomies of male/female and nature/culture that underlie contemporary environmental problems, Feminist Ecocriticism focuses specifically on emancipatory strategies employed by ecofeminist literary critics as antidotes, asking what our lives might be like as those strategies become increasingly successful in overcoming oppression. Thus, ecofeminism is not limited to the critique of literature, but also helps identify and articulate liberatory ideals that can be actualized in the real world, in the process transforming everyday life. Providing an alternative to rugged individualism, for example, ecofeminist literature promotes a more fulfilling sense of interrelationship with both community and the land. In the process of exploring literature from ecofeminist perspectives, the book reveals strategies of emancipation that have already begun to give rise to more hopeful ecological narratives.

Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature

Author : Onno Oerlemans
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802086976
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature written by Onno Oerlemans and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oerlemans extends current eco-critical views by synthesizing a range of viewpoints from the Romantic period.

Ecological Literary Criticism

Author : Karl Kroeber
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231100298
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Ecological Literary Criticism written by Karl Kroeber and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kroeber argues that literary criticism needs to reestablish connections to a wide range of social activities, especially the thinking of contemporary scientists. This new kind of criticism, "ecological literary criticism," sets out to correct the abstractions of current theorizing about literature, and to make humanistic studies more socially responsible. Though applicable to any writer of any period, Kroeber points out that the proto-ecological tendencies of the English Romantic poets make them especially useful as a starting point for this approach. Since the Romantics believed that people were, and should be, at home in the natural world. Ecological Literary Criticism asks that we examine poetry from a perspective that assumes that the imaginative acts of cultural beings offer valuable insights into how and why cultural and natural phenomena have interrelated in the past and how they could more advantageously interrelate in the future. Kroeber argues that this approach to criticism will help us to develop mutually enriching links between humanistic and scientific modes of understanding humankind and the earth we inhabit.

City of Nature

Author : Bernard Rosenthal
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874131475
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book City of Nature written by Bernard Rosenthal and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reexamines traditional assumptions about early American attitudes toward nature. It also reopens and redefines the relationships of nature and civilization in the previous century, and in so doing, offers today's reader an insight into the basis for some contemporary attitudes toward the environment. The works of major and minor American writers are considered.

Natures in Translation

Author : Alan Bewell
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421420961
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Natures in Translation written by Alan Bewell and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the dynamics of British colonialism and the enormous ecological transformations that took place through the mobilization and globalized management of natures. For many critics, Romanticism is synonymous with nature writing, for representations of the natural world appear during this period with a freshness, concreteness, depth, and intensity that have rarely been equaled. Why did nature matter so much to writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? And how did it play such an important role in their understanding of themselves and the world? In Natures in Translation, Alan Bewell argues that there is no Nature in the singular, only natures that have undergone transformation through time and across space. He examines how writers—as disparate as Erasmus and Charles Darwin, Joseph Banks, Gilbert White, William Bartram, William Wordsworth, John Clare, and Mary Shelley—understood a world in which natures were traveling and resettling the globe like never before. Bewell presents British natural history as a translational activity aimed at globalizing local natures by making them mobile, exchangeable, comparable, and representable. Bewell explores how colonial writers, in the period leading up to the formulation of evolutionary theory, responded to a world in which new natures were coming into being while others disappeared. For some of these writers, colonial natural history held the promise of ushering in a “cosmopolitan” nature in which every species, through trade and exchange, might become a true “citizen of the world.” Others struggled with the question of how to live after the natures they depended upon were gone. Ultimately, Natures in Translation demonstrates that—far from being separate from the dominant concerns of British imperial culture—nature was integrally bound up with the business of empire.

The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism

Author : Greg Garrard
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199742928
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism written by Greg Garrard and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2014 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism explores a range of critical perspectives used to analyze literature, film, and the visual arts in relation to the natural environment. Since the publication of field-defining works by Lawrence Buell, Jonathan Bate, and Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm in the 1990s, ecocriticism has become a conventional paradigm for critical analysis alongside queer theory, deconstruction, and postcolonial studies. The field includes numerous approaches, genres, movements, and media, as the essays collected here demonstrate. The contributors come from around the globe and, similarly, the literature and media covered originate from several countries and continents. Taken together, the essays consider how literary and other cultural productions have engaged with the natural environment to investigate climate change, environmental justice, sustainability, the nature of "humanity," and more. Featuring thirty-four original chapters, the volume is organized into three major areas. The first, History, addresses topics such as the Renaissance pastoral, Romantic poetry, the modernist novel, and postmodern transgenic art. The second, Theory, considers how traditional critical theories have expanded to include environmental perspectives. Included in this section are essays on queer theory, science studies, deconstruction, and postcolonialism. Genre, the final major section, explores the specific artforms that have animated the field over the past decade, including nature writing, children's literature, animated films, and digital media. A short section entitled Views from Here concludes the handbook by zeroing in on the various transnational perspectives informing the continued dissemination and globalization of the field.

Romantic Things

Author : Mary Jacobus
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226390667
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Things written by Mary Jacobus and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Jacobus discusses objects and attributes that test our perceptions and preoccupy both Romantic poetry and modern philosophy. John Clare, John Constable, W.G. Sebald, and Gerhard Richter make appearances around the central figure of William Wordsworth as Jacobus explores trees, rocks, clouds, and sleep in their work.

Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists

Author : Dewey W. Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317061519
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists written by Dewey W. Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his study of Romantic naturalists and early environmentalists, Dewey W. Hall asserts that William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson were transatlantic literary figures who were both influenced by the English naturalist Gilbert White. In Part 1, Hall examines evidence that as Romantic naturalists interested in meteorology, Wordsworth and Emerson engaged in proto-environmental activity that drew attention to the potential consequences of the locomotive's incursion into Windermere and Concord. In Part 2, Hall suggests that Wordsworth and Emerson shaped the early environmental movement through their work as poets-turned-naturalists, arguing that Wordsworth influenced Octavia Hill’s contribution to the founding of the United Kingdom’s National Trust in 1895, while Emerson inspired John Muir to spearhead the United States’ National Parks movement in 1890. Hall’s book traces the connection from White as a naturalist-turned-poet to Muir as the quintessential early environmental activist who camped in Yosemite with President Theodore Roosevelt. Throughout, Hall raises concerns about the growth of industrialization to make a persuasive case for literature's importance to the rise of environmentalism.

Ecology Without Nature

Author : Timothy Morton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674034856
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Ecology Without Nature written by Timothy Morton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological writers propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the "nature" they revere. The problem is a symptom of the ecological catastrophe in which we are living. Morton sets out a seeming paradox: to have a properly ecological view, we must relinquish the idea of nature once and for all. Ecology without Nature investigates our ecological assumptions in a way that is provocative and deeply engaging. Ranging widely in eighteenth-century through contemporary philosophy, culture, and history, he explores the value of art in imagining environmental projects for the future. Morton develops a fresh vocabulary for reading "environmentality" in artistic form as well as content, and traces the contexts of ecological constructs through the history of capitalism. From John Clare to John Cage, from Kierkegaard to Kristeva, from The Lord of the Rings to electronic life forms, Ecology without Nature widens our view of ecological criticism, and deepens our understanding of ecology itself. Instead of trying to use an idea of nature to heal what society has damaged, Morton sets out a radical new form of ecological criticism: "dark ecology."

Topographies of the Sacred

Author : Catherine E. Rigby
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813922751
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Topographies of the Sacred written by Catherine E. Rigby and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the British romantic poets - notably, Blake, Wordsworth, and Byron - have been the subjects of previous ecocritical examinations, this text compares English and German literary models of romanticism.

Beasts of Burden

Author : Ron Broglio
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 143846567X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Beasts of Burden written by Ron Broglio and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses literature, art, and cultural texts from the British Romantic period to explore the age in which biological life and its abilities first became regulated by the rising nation. In Beasts of Burden, Ron Broglio examines how liveshuman and animalwere counted in rural England and Scotland during the Romantic period. During this time, Britain experienced unprecedented data collection from censuses, ordinance surveys, and measurements of resources, all used to quantify the life and productivity of the nation. It was the dawn of biopoliticsthe age in which biological life and its abilities became regulated by the state. Borne primarily by workers and livestock, nowhere was this regulation felt more powerfully than in the fields, commons, and enclosures. Using literature, art, and cultural texts of the period, Broglio explores the apparatus of biopolitics during the age of Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus. He looks at how data collection turned everyday life into citizenship and nationalism and how labor class poets and artists recorded and resisted the burden of this new biopolitical life. The author reveals how the frictions of material life work over and against designs by the state to form a unified biopolitical Britain. At its most radical, this book changes what constitutes the central concerns of the Romantic period and which texts are valuable for understanding the formation of a nation, its agriculture, and its rural landscapes.

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment

Author : Timothy Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113949516X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment written by Timothy Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This 2011 book offers an introductory overview of literary and cultural criticism that concerns environmental crisis in some form. Both as a way of reading texts and as a theoretical approach to culture more generally, 'ecocriticism' is a varied and fast-changing set of practices which challenges inherited thinking and practice in the reading of literature and culture. This introduction defines what ecocriticism is, its methods, arguments and concepts, and will enable students to look at texts in a wholly new way. Boxed sections explain key critical terms and contemporary debates in the field with 'hands-on' examples and comparisons. Timothy Clark's thoughtful approach makes this an ideal first encounter with environmental readings of literature.

Transcultural Ecocriticism

Author : Stuart Cooke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350121649
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Transcultural Ecocriticism written by Stuart Cooke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together decolonial, Romantic and global literature perspectives, Transcultural Ecocriticism explores innovative new directions for the field of environmental literary studies. By examining these literatures across a range of geographical locations and historical periods – from Romantic period travel writing to Chinese science fiction and Aboriginal Australian poetry – the book makes a compelling case for the need for ecocriticism to competently translate between Indigenous and non-Indigenous, planetary and local, and contemporary and pre-modern perspectives. Leading scholars from Australasia and North America explore links between Indigenous knowledges, Romanticism, globalisation, avant-garde poetics and critical theory in order to chart tensions as well as affinities between these discourses in a variety of genres of environmental representation, including science fiction, poetry, colonial natural history and oral narrative.