Wordsworth and the Green Romantics: Affect and Ecology in the Nineteenth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-61168-895-5
Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Upne

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies

Situated at the intersection of ecocriticism, affect studies, and Romantic studies, this collection breaks new ground on the role of emotions in Western environmentalism. Recent scholarship highlights how traffic between Romantic-era literature and science helped to catalyze Green Romanticism. Closer to our own moment, the affective turn reflects similar cross-disciplinary collaboration, as many scholars now see the physiological phenomenon of affect as a force central to how we develop conscious attitudes and commitments. Together, these trends offer suggestive insights for the study of Green Romanticism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ottum, Lisa

Reno, Seth T.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Recovering Ecology’s Affects—Lisa Ottum and Seth T. Reno
- Rethinking the Romantics’ Love of Nature—Seth T. Reno
- Embarrassing Displays of Devotion in Nineteenth-Century Paintings—William Stroup
- Of Asses and Men: Animals in Wordsworth’s Peter Bell—Kurt Fosso
- “A route of evanescence”: Phenomenophilia and Romantic Natural History—Sarah Weiger
- Reverie and the Life of Things: Rousseau, Darwin, and Romantic Visionary Materialism—Allison Dushane
- Fostered by Fear: Affect and Environment in Romantic Nature Writing—Ashton Nichols
- Crabbe’s The Borough: Environment, Loss, and the Place of the Past—Clare A. Simmons
- Choosing Nature: Affect and Economics in Wordsworth’s The Prelude—Amanpal Garcha
- Reading, Romanticism, and Affect in Environmental Education—Lisa Ottum
- Afterword: The Future of Ecocriticism—James C. McKusick
- Contributor Biographies
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Ottum is assistant professor of English at Xavier University.

Seth T. Reno is assistant professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery.