Romantic Revelations : : Visions of Post-Apocalyptic Life and Hope in the Anthropocene / / Chris Washington.
Romantic Revelations shows that the nonhuman is fundamental to Romanticism's political responses to climatic catastrophes. Exploring what he calls "post-apocalyptic Romanticism," Chris Washington intervenes in the critical conversation that has long defined Romanticism as an apocalypt...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: There Is a Light That Never Goes Out?
- 1. The Mind Is Its Own Place: What Percy Shelley's Mountain Did Not Say
- 2. No More Cakes and Ale, Only Oil Slicks: Mary Shelley's Post-Apocalyptic State of Nature
- 3. Byron's Speculative Turn: The Biopolitics of Paradise
- 4. Birds Do It, Bees Do It: John Clare, Biopolitics, and the Nonhuman Origins of Love
- 5. The Best of All Possible End of the Worlds: Jane Austen's Frankenstein, or Love in the Ruins
- Coda: After Extinctualism: Hope for Life
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index