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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Dewey W. Hall

Chapter 1. Ecological Horology: The Nature of Time during the Romantic Period - Marcus Tomalin

Chapter 2. Naturalists' Interpretations: Daffodils, Swallows, and a Floating Island - Dewey W. Hall

Chapter 3. 'It cannot be a sin to seek to save an earth-born being': Radical Ecotheology in
Byron's Heaven and Earth - J. Andrew Hubbell

Chapter 4. Process and Presence: Geological Influence and Innovation in Shelley's 'Mont Blanc' - Bryon Williams

Chapter 5. 'Perpetual Analogies' and 'Occult Harmonies': Ralph Waldo Emerson's Ecological Selves - Kaitlin Mondello

Chapter 6. An Uncertain Spirit of an Unstable Place: Frankenstein in the Anthropocene - Shalon Noble

Chapter 7. Wild West and Western Wildness: A Transatlantic Perspective - Jude Frodyma

Chapter 8. Ecocentering the Self: William Howitt, Thoreau, and the Environmental Imagination - Ryan David Leack

Chapter 9. Toward a Romantic Poetics of Acknowledgement: Wordsworth, Clare, and Aldo Leopold's 'Land Ethi

Product details

Published 15 Mar 2016
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 310
ISBN 9781498518017
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 4 b/w photos;
Dimensions 240 x 158 mm
Series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Dewey W. Hall

Contributor

Colin Carman

Contributor

Alicia Carroll

Contributor

Judyta Frodyma

Contributor

Dewey W. Hall

Contributor

Gary Harrison

Contributor

Shalon Noble

Contributor

Lisa Ottum

Contributor

Marcus Tomalin

Contributor

Bryon Williams

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