Romantic Ecology (Routledge Revivals)

Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-415-85665-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 194 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1991, Romantic Ecology reassesses the poetry of William Wordsworth in the context of the abiding pastoral tradition in English Literature. Jonathan Bate explores the politics of poetry and argues that contrary to critics who suggest that the Wordsworth was a reactionary who failed to represent the harsh economic reality of his native Lake District, the poet’s politics were fundamentally ‘green’. As our first truly ecological poet, Wordsworth articulated a powerful and enduring vision of human integration with nature which exercised a formative influence on later conservation movements and is of immediate relevance to great environmental issues today. Challenging the orthodoxies of new historicist criticism, Jonathan Bate sets a new agenda for the study of Romanticism in the 1990s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bate, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert Romantik (Kunstgeschichte)
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. A language that is ever green 2. The economy of nature 3. The moral of landscape 4. The naming of places; Notes; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Bate