Reclaiming romanticism : towards an ecopoetics of decolonisation / Kate Rigby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rigby, Kate, author.

Series:

Environmental Cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmentalism in literature--History and criticism.

Environmentalism in literature.

Nature in literature--History and criticism.

Nature in literature.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The earliest environmental criticism took its inspiration from the Romantic poets and their immersion in the natural world. Today the ?romanticising? of nature has come to be viewed with suspicion. Written by one of the leading ecocritics writing today, Reclaiming Romanticism rediscovers the importance of the European Romantic tradition to the ways that writers and critics engage with the environment in the Anthropocene era. Exploring the work of such poets as Wordsworth, Shelley and Clare, the book discovers a rich vein of Romantic ecomaterialism and brings these canonical poets into dialogue with contemporary American and Australian poets and artists. Kate Rigby demonstrates the ways in which Romantic ecopoetics responds to postcolonial challenges and environmental peril to offer a collaborative artistic practice for an era of human-non-human cohabitation and kinship."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One 'Come forth into the light of things': Contemplative Ecopoetics

Chapter Two 'Seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness': Affective Ecopoetics

Chapter Three 'Piping in their honey dreams': Creaturely Ecopoetics

Chapter Four 'the wrong dream': Prophetic Ecopoetics

Chapter Five 'deeper tracks wind back': Decolonial Ecopoetics

Postscript: Ecopoetics beyond the page

Works cited

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Creative Commons. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en

ISBN:

9781474290623

1474290620

9781474290609

1474290604

OCLC:

1170386311