Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature - Couverture rigide

Oerlemans, Onno

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0802048633 ISBN 13 : 9780802048639

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2002

Synopsis

Given current environmental concerns, it is not surprising to find literary critics and theorists surveying the Romantic poets with ecological hindsight. In this timely study, Onno Oerlemans extends these current eco-critical views by synthesizing a range of viewpoints from the Romantic period. He explores not only the ideas of poets and artists, but also those of philosophers, scientists, and explorers. Oerlemans grounds his discussion in the works of specific Romantic authors, especially Wordsworth and Shelley, but also draws liberally on such fields as literary criticism, the philosophy of science, travel literature, environmentalist policy, art history, biology, geology, and genetics, creating a fertile mix of historical analysis, cultural commentary, and close reading. Through this, we discover that the Romantics understood how they perceived the physical world, and how they distorted and abused it. Oerlemans's wide-ranging study adds much to our understanding of Romantic-period thinkers and their relationship to the natural world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Onno Oerlemans is an associate professor in the Department of English at Hamilton College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802048633
• ISBN 13: 9780802048639
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
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