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

• Autore: Hutchings Kevin (Kevin Douglas), <1960->
• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/007
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Colonies America Administration
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Romantic ecologies and colonial cultures in the British Atlantic world, 1770-1850
• ISBN: 1-282-86725-3; 9786612867255; 0-7735-7681-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791405603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II