British Romanticism, climate change, and the Anthropocene : writing Tambora /
This text is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change. It analyzes 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 t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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| Series: | Palgrave pivot.
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| Summary: | This text is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change. It analyzes 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. This book 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. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 142 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-137) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783319678931 3319678930 |