Romantic Environmental Sensibility : : Nature, Class and Empire /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations 15 black and white illustrations
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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

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