04447oam 2200793I 450 991081065910332120240313052222.01-136-29304-31-283-64303-00-203-11486-81-136-29305-110.4324/9780203114865 (CKB)2670000000259365(EBL)1039285(OCoLC)812914860(SSID)ssj0000757545(PQKBManifestationID)12360783(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000757545(PQKBWorkID)10771481(PQKB)11481697(MiAaPQ)EBC1039285(Au-PeEL)EBL1039285(CaPaEBR)ebr10611593(CaONFJC)MIL395553(OCoLC)748335589(FINmELB)ELB143588(EXLCZ)99267000000025936520180706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAnimality in British Romanticism the aesthetics of species /Peter Heymans1st ed.New York Routledge2012New York :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (226 p.)Routledge studies in romanticism ;16Routledge studies in romanticism ;16Description based upon print version of record.1-138-11836-2 0-415-50730-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-216) and index.Pt. 1. The environmental ethics of alienation: the ecological sublime -- Green masochism: Coleridge's "The rime of the ancient mariner" -- Hunting for pleasure: Wordsworth's ecofeminism Pt. 2. Humans and other moving things: Wordsworth visits London (with Deleuze and Guattari) -- The cute and the cruel: taste, animality and sexual violence in Burke and Blake -- A problem of waste management: Frankenstein and the visual order of things -- Pt. 3. Revelation, reason, ridicule: the scientific sublime -- A taste of God: natural theology and the aesthetics of Intelligent Design -- Beauty with a past: evolutionary aesthetics in Erasmus Darwin's The temple of nature."The scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the concept of species. This book examines literary representations of human and non-human animality in British Romanticism. The book's novel approach focuses on the role of aesthetic taste in the Romantic understanding of the animal. Concentrating on the discourses of the sublime, the beautiful, and the ugly, Heymans argues that the Romantics' aesthetic views of animality influenced--and were influenced by--their moral, scientific, political, and theological judgment. The study reveals how feelings of environmental alienation and disgust played a positive moral role in animal rights poetry, why ugliness presented such a major problem for Romantic-period scientists and theologians, and how, in political writings, the violent yet awe-inspiring power of exotic species came to symbolize the beauty and terror of the French Revolution. Linking the works of Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge, Byron, the Shelleys, Erasmus Darwin, and William Paley to the theories of Immanuel Kant and Edmund Burke, this book brings an original perspective to the fields of ecocriticism, animal studies, and literature and science studies"--Provided by publisher.Routledge Studies in RomanticismEnglish literature18th centuryHistory and criticismAnimals in literatureEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismPhilosophy in literatureAesthetics in literatureRomanticismGreat BritainEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Animals in literature.English literatureHistory and criticism.Philosophy in literature.Aesthetics in literature.Romanticism820.9/36209034LIT004120PHI001000NAT000000bisacshHeymans Peter1983-,1667332MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810659103321Animality in British Romanticism4027085UNINA