Romantic Environmental Sensibility : : Nature, Class and Empire / / ed. by Ve-Yin Tee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Bridgen, Adam,; Clark, Steve,; Denney, Peter,; Dias, Rosie,; Higgins, David,; Hsu, Li-hsin,; Katsuyama, Kuri,; Keegan, Bridget,; Oishi, Kaz,; Otagaki, Yuko,; Ray, Romita,; Tee, Ve-Yin,; White, Simon J.,; Williams, Laurence,
• HerausgeberIn: Tee, Ve-Yin,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism : ECSR
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations 15 black and white illustrations

Uncovers alternative ways of seeing the environment from the Romantic periodExplores how Romantic ideas of nature are shaped by social classShows how Romantic ideas of nature impacted upon the land both within the UK and overseasArgues current approaches to conservation and animal rights continue to be influenced by a class-bound Romantic environmental sensibilityOffers alternative ways of seeing the environment from the Romantic periodRomantic Environmental Sensibility employs a class-based analysis in global studies. The chapters here reveal the extent to which our representations of the land, as well as of the plants, animals and people who live on the land, are imposed upon by habits of thought that are profoundly class-based. It shows how Green Romanticism has simplified Romantic period discourse by bringing to light the multiplicity of perspectives and long-standing inequalities that have been occluded and how current approaches to conservation and animal rights continue to be influenced by a class-bound Romantic environmental sensibility.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Environmentalism, Class and Nature -- Part I: Green Imperialism -- 1. The Environmental Aesthetics of the Chinese Garden -- 2. Orientalising the British Class System: Exploring the ‘Chinese’ Landscapes of Sir William Chambers, 1740–1775 -- 3. Ecogothic Chinatown -- 4. Climate Change, Inequality and Romantic Catastrophe -- 5. Governing from the Country House: Landscape and the Aesthetics of Colonial Rule in India, 1780–1830 -- 6. On the Prowl: Tigers and the Tea Planter in British India -- Part II: Land and Creature Ethics -- 7. William Cowper and Suburban Environmental Aesthetics -- 8. Exclusionary Landscapes: Shenstone and the Development of a Romantic Aesthetics of Enclosure -- 9. A World of Fire and Drought: Ecosocialism, Improvement and Apocalypse in James Woodhouse’s Crispinus Scriblerus -- 10. Clifton Walks: Milkmaids Real and Imaginary -- 11. Blake and the Pastoral-Georgic Tradition -- 12. Untidying the Landscape: Romantic Poetics, Class and Non‑Human Nature -- 13. Sensing the Population Debate: Poverty, Ecology and the Senses in Malthus and his Critics -- Afterword: ‘A tear to Nature’s tawny sons is due’: Alexander Wilson’s The Foresters and Romantic Period Uprootings -- Index