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Beyond romantic ecocriticism : toward urbanatural roosting / Ashton Nichols.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nichols, Ashton, 1953-
- Series:
- Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Nature in literature.
- Natural history in literature.
- Human ecology in literature.
- Philosophy of nature.
- Urban ecology (Biology).
- Ecocriticism.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Contents:
- Prologue: urbanatural roosting
- Spring, vernal roosting: romantic ecocriticism: March: a new urbanatural year & the history of natural history; April: poetry and science & nature as culture, culture as society; May: species science & saving cities, saving tigers
- Summer, estival roosting: ecocriticism: June: vestiges of time & Thoreau and urbanature; July: wild animals have no souls & ecomorphic urbanature; August: the loves of plants and animals & romantic poetry and pleasures of nature
- Fall, autumnal roosting: urbanature: September: from natural pleasure to natural pain & a perfect bird, a perfect poem; October: hawks I have watched & urbanatural roosting on display; November: science and poetry & a hard rain's gonna fall
- Winter, hibernal roosting: beyond romantic ecocriticism: December: zoos: romantic rhinos and Victorian vipers; January: displaying human beings & romantic urbanature; February: death and dying & ecomorphic ecocentrism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230102675
- 0230102670
- OCLC:
- 657600111
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