Wordsworth and the green romantics : affect and ecology in the nineteenth century / edited by Lisa Ottum and Seth T. Reno.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ottum, Lisa, editor.

Reno, Seth (Seth T.), editor.

Series:

Becoming modern

Becoming modern: new nineteenth-century studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Knowledge and learning--Natural history.

Wordsworth, William.

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.

Natural history.

Nature in literature.

Ecology in literature.

Ecocriticism in literature.

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

253 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham, New Hampshire : University of New Hampshire Press, [2016]

Summary:

"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. While critics have traditionally positioned Romantic Nature as idealized and illusory, Romantic representations of nature are, in fact, ambivalent, scientifically informed, and ethically engaged. They often reflect writers' efforts to capture the fleeting experience of affect, raising urgent questions about how nature evokes feelings, and what demands these sensations place upon the feeling subject. By focusing on the affective dimensions of Green Romanticism, Wordsworth and the Green Romantics advances a vision of Romantic ecology that complicates scholarly perceptions of Romantic Nature, as well as popular caricatures of the Romantics as naïve nature lovers. This collection will interest scholars and students of Romanticism, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, ecocriticism, affect studies, and those who work at the intersection of literature and science." -- Publisher's description

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Wordsworth and the green romantics.

ISBN:

9781611688948

1611688949

9781611688955

1611688957

OCLC:

923650822