03694nam 2200709 450 991045631190332120200520144314.01-281-99639-497866119963901-4426-7946-810.3138/9781442679467(CKB)2430000000001834(EBL)3255115(SSID)ssj0000308627(PQKBManifestationID)11244377(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000308627(PQKBWorkID)10258284(PQKB)11529357(CaBNvSL)thg00600918 (MiAaPQ)EBC3255115(MiAaPQ)EBC4671920(DE-B1597)464835(OCoLC)1013944191(OCoLC)944177445(DE-B1597)9781442679467(Au-PeEL)EBL4671920(CaPaEBR)ebr11257608(CaONFJC)MIL199639(OCoLC)958515870(EXLCZ)99243000000000183420160922e20042002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRomanticism and the materiality of nature /Onno OerlemansToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2004.©20021 online resource (262 p.)HeritageDescription based upon print version of record.0-8020-8697-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- INDEXGiven 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.RomanticismGreat BritainEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismNature in literatureElectronic books.RomanticismEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Nature in literature.820.9/145Oerlemans Onno1961-907035MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456311903321Romanticism and the materiality of nature2028897UNINA