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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451567703321

Autore

Hess Scott

Titolo

William Wordsworth and the ecology of authorship [[electronic resource] ] : the roots of environmentalism in nineteenth-century culture / / Scott Hess

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-48945-6

9786613584687

0-8139-3231-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Collana

Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism

Disciplina

821/.7

Soggetti

Nature in literature

Environmental policy - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Ecology in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.