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.

UNINA9910788694603321

Autore

Unel Bulent

Titolo

The Dynamics of Provincial Growth in China : : A Nonparametric Approach / / Bulent Unel, Harm Zebregs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-5990-6

1-4527-4914-0

1-283-51812-0

1-4519-0851-2

9786613830579

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (24 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

ZebregsHarm

Soggetti

Economic development - China

Production and Operations Management

Inventions

Employment

Unemployment

Wages

Intergenerational Income Distribution

Aggregate Human Capital

Aggregate Labor Productivity

Human Capital

Skills

Occupational Choice

Labor Productivity

Macroeconomics: Production

Innovation

Research and Development

Technological Change

Intellectual Property Rights: General



Macroeconomics

Inventions & inventors

Technology

general issues

Capital productivity

Labor productivity

Productivity

Technological innovation

Industrial productivity

Technological innovations

China Economic conditions

China, People's Republic of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"February 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Theoretical Framework""; ""Empirical Analysis""; ""Conclusion""; ""Data Appendix""

Sommario/riassunto

China's growth record since the start of its economic reforms in 1978 has been extraordinary. Yet, this impressive performance has been associated with an increasing regional income disparity. We use a recently developed nonparametric approach to analyze the variation in labor productivity growth across China's provinces. This approach imposes less structure on the data than the standard growth accounting framework and allows for a breakdown of labor productivity into capital deepening, efficiency gains, and technological progress. Like other studies before us, we do not find strong evidence of convergence in labor productivity across China's provinces during 1978-98. However, our results show that provinces converged in efficiency levels, while they diverged in capital deepening and technological progress.