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British Romanticism, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene
Writing Tambora|
58,84 € |
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| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan |
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| Veröffentl.: | 20.11.2017 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9783319678948 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
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<p>This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change. It analyses a wide range of texts – by authors including Lord Byron, William Cobbett, Sir Stamford Raffles, Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley – in relation to the global crisis produced by the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815. By connecting these texts to current debates in the environmental humanities, it reveals the value of a historicized approach to the Anthropocene. <i>British Romanticism, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene </i>examines how Romantic texts affirm the human capacity to shape and make sense of a world with which we are profoundly entangled and at the same time represent our humiliation by powerful elemental forces that we do not fully comprehend. It will appeal not only to scholars of British Romanticism, but to anyone interested in the relationship between culture and climate change.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p>
<div>Introduction: Historicising Climate Change.- Chapter 1: Sir Stamford Raffles, Napoleon, and the Tambora Eruption.- Chapter 2: Print Politics and Climate in 1816.- Chapter 3: Byron, the Shelleys, and the ‘Year Without A Summer’.- Afterword.- Bibliography.</div>
<p>David Higgins is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published widely on Romantic literature and culture, including the monographs <i>Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine</i> and <i>Romantic Englishness</i>, and the co-edited collection <i>Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism</i>.<b></b></p>
<p>First major literary-critical study of the relationship between climate change and British Romanticism</p><p>Challenges the critical tendency to understand Romantic nature writing as largely apolitical and concerned with individual and local experience</p><p>Looks at many of the key Romantic figures: the Shelleys, Byron and Coleridge</p><p>Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras</p>
First major literary-critical study of the relationship between climate change and British Romanticism<div><br></div><div>Challenges the critical tendency to understand Romantic nature writing as largely apolitical and concerned with individual and local experience </div><div><br></div><div>Looks at many of the key Romantic figures: the Shelleys, Byron and Coleridge<br><div><br></div></div>
“Combining Romanticist and ecocritical research, David Higgins shows just how and why literary scholars should be reading ecological and cultural histories in tandem. This is a historically rigorous and theoretically informed account of the Tambora eruption and the material and discursive networks that informed, and continue to inform, our response to it. It brings together historical accounts, Romantic poetry, scientific observations and data, with an entirely up-to-date critical approach. The result is intelligent, informative, and thoroughly readable.” (Adeline Johns-Putra, Reader in English Literature at University of Surrey, UK)<p></p>
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