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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791405603321

Autore

Hutchings Kevin (Kevin Douglas), <1960->

Titolo

Romantic ecologies and colonial cultures in the British Atlantic world, 1770-1850 [[electronic resource] /] / Kevin Hutchings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-86725-3

9786612867255

0-7735-7681-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/007

Soggetti

English literature - Minority authors - History and criticism

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Environmentalism - Great Britain - History

Human ecology in literature

Imperialism in literature

Nature in literature

Race in literature

Romanticism

Slavery in literature

Great Britain Colonies America Administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The Politics and Poetics of Green Romanticism -- 1. Naturalizing Colonial Relations in the British Atlantic World: Slavery as Fact and Figure -- 2. Race and Animality in the British Atlantic World -- 3. Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion -- 4. Enslaved Brutes and Brutalized Slaves: Animal Rights and Abolition in Coleridge and the Black Atlantic -- 5. Environmental Determinism and the Politics of Nature: William Richardson's The Indians: A Tragedy -- 6. Thomas Campbell's American Idyll: Colonial Ideology in Gertrude of Wyoming -- 7. Romanticism, Colonialism, and the "Natural Man" in the Writings of Sir



Francis Bond Head and George Copway -- Afterword: Colonialism and Ecology.

Sommario/riassunto

By addressing these and other intriguing questions, Kevin Hutchings highlights significant intersections between Green Romanticism and colonial politics, demonstrating how contemporary understandings of animality, climate, and habitat informed literary and cross-cultural debates about race, slavery, colonialism, and nature in the British Atlantic world. Revealing an innovative dialogue between British, African, and Native American writers of the Romantic period, this book will be of interest to anyone wishing to consider the interconnected histories of transatlantic colonial relations and environmental thought.