Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature - Rilegato

Oerlemans, Onno

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ISBN 10: 0802048633 ISBN 13: 9780802048639

Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 2002

Riassunto

Given current environmental concerns, it is not surprising to find literary critics and theorists surveying the Romantic poets with ecological hindsight. In this timely study, Onno Oerlemans extends these current eco-critical views by synthesizing a range of viewpoints from the Romantic period. He explores not only the ideas of poets and artists, but also those of philosophers, scientists, and explorers.

Oerlemans grounds his discussion in the works of specific Romantic authors, especially Wordsworth and Shelley, but also draws liberally on such fields as literary criticism, the philosophy of science, travel literature, environmentalist policy, art history, biology, geology, and genetics, creating a fertile mix of historical analysis, cultural commentary, and close reading. Through this, we discover that the Romantics understood how they perceived the physical world, and how they distorted and abused it. Oerlemans's wide-ranging study adds much to our understanding of Romantic-period thinkers and their relationship to the natural world.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Onno Oerlemans is an associate professor in the Department of English at Hamilton College.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

'By juxtaposing travel literature and vegetarianism, the horse paintings of George Stubbs and the animal poetry of John Clare, the material particularity of Wordsworth and the taxonomic theories of Foucault, Cuvier, and Darwin, Oerlemans creates a splendid cross-fertilizing of fields. The result is a very exciting, fresh consideration of the complex resonances between Romanticism and environmentalism, materiality and sublimity, and natural history and literature. A welcome study.'

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Toronto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0802048633
• ISBN 13: 9780802048639
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 253