Writing Romantic Climate Change : Gendered Poetics and Critical Legacies in the Anthropocene.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lippe, Anya Heise-von der
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2024.
Series:	Literary ecologies.
Subjects:	Climatic changes in literature. English literature > 19th century > Women authors > History and criticism. Nature in literature. Climat > Changements, dans la littérature. Nature dans la littérature. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Anthropocene. British Studies. Ecology. Gender Studies. Gender. Literary Criticism. Literary Studies. Literature. Nature. Romanticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: "Anthropocene"
Introduction: "Romanthropocene"
The Anthropocene and its Critics
Romantic Criticism in the ANTHROPOcene
Gendering "Nature" and the Sublime in Romantic Criticism
Women Writing "Nature" and Climate Change in the Early Anthropocene
Elizabeth Kent: Flora Domestica
Mary Shelley: The Last Man
Letitia Elizabeth Landon: "The Factory"
Conclusion
Chapter 2: "Steam"
Introduction: Steam
William Wordsworth "On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway"
Environmental Elitism
Universalizing the Experience of "Nature"
Progress and Ruin
Joanna Baillie: "Address to a Steam-Vessel"
Democratizing an Aesthetic Experience of Landscape
The Aesthetics of Steam-Powered Travel
Aesthetic Experience Beyond the Autonomous Self
Gendering Steam Power
Henry David Thoreau, Walden and the Railway
Progress and Commerce
Progress and the Project of Self-Improvement
Situating Knowledge in the Experiencing Self
Clashing Temporalities
In Conclusion: Gender, Access and Steam-Powered Travel
Chapter 3: "Apocalypse"
Introduction: Climate Apocalypse and the Sublime
George Gordon Lord Byron: "Darkness"
Biblical Language and the Secular Apocalypse
The Impossibility of Apocalyptic Sublimation
Gendering the Apocalyptic
Reinstating a Subject Position
Mary Ann Browne: "A World Without Water"
Structuring Scarcity
Envisioning Embodied Experience
Community and Connections
Romantic Apocalypse in Mary Shelley's The Last Man
Genre and Positionality
Framing Narrative Authority
Gender Politics and the Necessity of Community
Framing Catastrophe
The Aesthetics of Disaster
Contrasting Communal and Solipsistic Responses
Gender and Prophecy
The Failure of the Sublime
Conclusion.
Chapter 4: "Mushrooms"
Introduction
Mycological Romanticizations
Romantic Mushrooms
Romanticizing Mushrooms
Mycelial Entanglements and the Arts of Noticing
Imagining a Mushroom Perspective
In Conclusion: Mushrooms, Gender and Positionality
Conclusion
Works Cited.