Romantic Environmental Sensibility
Nature, Class and Empire
Published on 15. November 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-4744-5648-7 (ISBN)
Description
Romantic Environmental Sensibility employs a class-based analysis in global studies. The chapters here reveal the extent to which our representations of the land, as well as of the plants, animals and people who live on the land, are imposed upon by habits of thought that are profoundly class-based. It shows how Green Romanticism has simplified Romantic period discourse by bringing to light the multiplicity of perspectives and long-standing inequalities that have been occluded and how current approaches to conservation and animal rights continue to be influenced by a class-bound Romantic environmental sensibility.
Reviews / Votes
Romantic Environmental Sensibility: Nature, Class and Empire offers a boldly revisionary reading of environmental texts from the British Romantic period. The essays in this collection are profoundly concerned with questions of environmental justice and social class as manifested in the work of English aristocrats and working-class writers and in the perspectives of colonial overlords and local inhabitants throughout the British Empire. This book makes a vitally important contribution to the emerging discipline of ecocriticism. -- James C. McKusick, University of Missouri-Kansas City, author of Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology and coeditor of Literature and Nature: Four Centuries of Nature Writing.More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
15 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-5648-7 (9781474456487)
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Person
Ve-Yin Tee is Assistant Professor in the Department of British and American Studies, Nanzan University, Japan. His most recent publication is the chapter for Transcultural Ecocriticism: Global, Romantic and Decolonial Perspectives (2021) edited by Stuart Cooke and Peter Denney, 'The Dark Side of Romantic Dendrophilia'. He is the author of Coleridge, Revision and Romanticism: After the Revolution, 1793-1818 (2009) as well as the teen novel On Donuts and Telekinesis (2014). He is currently working on Japanese steampunk sculpture.
Content
AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsList of Illustrations
Introduction: Environmentalism, Class and Nature - Ve-Yin Tee
Part I: Green Imperialism
The Environmental Aesthetics of the Chinese Garden - Kuri Katsuyama
Orientalising the British Class System: Exploring the 'Chinese' Landscapes of Sir William Chambers, 1740-1775 - Laurence Williams
Ecogothic Chinatown - Li-hsin Hsu
Climate Change, Inequality, and Romantic Catastrophe - David Higgins
Governing from the Country House: Landscape and the Aesthetics of Colonial Rule in India, 1780-1830 - Rosie Dias
On the Prowl: Tigers and the Tea Planter in British India - Romita Ray
Part II: Land and Creature Ethics
William Cowper and Suburban Environmental Aesthetics - Kaz Oishi
Exclusionary Landscapes: Shenstone and the Development of a Romantic Aesthetics of Enclosure - Ve-Yin Tee
A World of Fire and Drought: Ecosocialism, Improvement, and Apocalypse in James Woodhouse's Crispinus Scriblerus - Adam Bridgen
Clifton Walks: Milkmaids Real and Imaginary - Yuko Otagaki
Blake and the Pastoral-Georgic Tradition - Steve Clark
Untidying the Landscape: Romantic Poetics, Class and Non-Human Nature - Simon J. White
Sensing the Population Debate: Poverty, Ecology and the Senses in Malthus and his Critics - Peter Denney
Afterword: 'A tear to Nature's tawny sons is due': Alexander Wilson's 'The Foresters' and Romantic Period Uprootings - Bridget Keegan
Introduction: Environmentalism, Class and Nature - Ve-Yin Tee
Part I: Green Imperialism
The Environmental Aesthetics of the Chinese Garden - Kuri Katsuyama
Orientalising the British Class System: Exploring the 'Chinese' Landscapes of Sir William Chambers, 1740-1775 - Laurence Williams
Ecogothic Chinatown - Li-hsin Hsu
Climate Change, Inequality, and Romantic Catastrophe - David Higgins
Governing from the Country House: Landscape and the Aesthetics of Colonial Rule in India, 1780-1830 - Rosie Dias
On the Prowl: Tigers and the Tea Planter in British India - Romita Ray
Part II: Land and Creature Ethics
William Cowper and Suburban Environmental Aesthetics - Kaz Oishi
Exclusionary Landscapes: Shenstone and the Development of a Romantic Aesthetics of Enclosure - Ve-Yin Tee
A World of Fire and Drought: Ecosocialism, Improvement, and Apocalypse in James Woodhouse's Crispinus Scriblerus - Adam Bridgen
Clifton Walks: Milkmaids Real and Imaginary - Yuko Otagaki
Blake and the Pastoral-Georgic Tradition - Steve Clark
Untidying the Landscape: Romantic Poetics, Class and Non-Human Nature - Simon J. White
Sensing the Population Debate: Poverty, Ecology and the Senses in Malthus and his Critics - Peter Denney
Afterword: 'A tear to Nature's tawny sons is due': Alexander Wilson's 'The Foresters' and Romantic Period Uprootings - Bridget Keegan