1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456311903321

Autore

Oerlemans Onno <1961->

Titolo

Romanticism and the materiality of nature / / Onno Oerlemans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2004

©2002

ISBN

1-281-99639-4

9786611996390

1-4426-7946-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

820.9/145

Soggetti

Romanticism - Great Britain

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Nature in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: Romanticism, Environmentalism, and the Material Sublime -- I. The End of the World: Wordsworth, Nature, Elegy -- II. The Meanest Thing That Feels: Anthropomorphizing Animals in Romanticism -- III. Shelley's Ideal Body: Vegetarianism, Revolution, and Nature -- IV. Romanticism and the Metaphysics of Classification -- V. Moving through the Environment: Travel and Romanticism -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786274703321

Autore

El-Makhloufi Abderrahman <1964-, >

Titolo

Spatial-economic metamorphosis of a nebula city : Schiphol and the Schiphol region during the 20th century / / Abderrahman El-Makhloufi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-19135-6

0-203-08439-X

1-299-14853-0

1-136-19136-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (441 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in human geography ; ; 40

Disciplina

307.7609492

Soggetti

Urbanization - Netherlands

Regional planning - Netherlands

City planning - Netherlands

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The spatial-economic transformation of the Schiphol region, 1900 to the present -- Spatial-economic transformation and the rise of the nebula city -- Institutional foundations of spatial-economic changes -- Urbanization and industrialization of Schiphol and Amsterdam -- The rise and development of Schiphol airport -- Reconstruction and development of Schiphol Airport during 1945-1980 -- Spatial-economic transformation of Amsterdam-Schiphol region between 1945-1980 -- From Mainport to Airport City -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyses the long term spatial-economic metamorphosis of



Schiphol and the Schiphol region as archetypal for a wider international phenomenon of urban development of metropolises across the world. It study the origins and course of urban development process by identifying and explaining which (collective) arrangements, including their ambient factors and the visual representations of the city and urbanity, have influenced this metamorphosis in a decisive manner.