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William Wordsworth and the ecology of authorship : the roots of environmentalism in nineteenth-century culture / Scott Hess.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hess, Scott.
- Series:
- Under the sign of nature.
- Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature in literature.
- Environmental policy--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Environmental policy.
- Ecology in literature.
- Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Knowledge--Natural history.
- Wordsworth, William.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The supposedly universal Wordsworthian vision of nature, Hess argues, was in this sense specifically male, middle-class, professional, and culturally elite--factors that continue to shape the environmental movement today.
- Contents:
- Picturesque vision, photographic subjectivity, and the (un)framing of nature
- Wordsworth country: the Lake District and the landscape of genius
- Wordsworth's environmental protest: the Kendal and Windermere Railroad and the cultural politics of nature
- The Lake District and the museum of nature
- "My endless way": travel, gender, and the imaginative colonization of nature
- Epilogue: the ecology of authorship versus the ecology of community.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613584687
- 9781280489457
- 1280489456
- 9780813932316
- 0813932319
- OCLC:
- 793806504
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