Wild romanticism /
edited by Markus Poetzsch and Cassandra Falke.
- 1 online resource (xii, 211 pages)
- Routledge environmental literature, culture and media .
"Earthscan from Routledge"
Wild Romanticism consolidates contemporary thinking about conceptions of the wild in British and European Romanticism, clarifying the emergence of wilderness as a cultural, symbolic, and ecological idea. This volume brings together the work of twelve scholars, who examine representations of wildness in canonical texts such as Frankenstein, Northanger Abbey, "Kubla Khan," "Expostulation and Reply," and Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, as well as lesser-known works by Radcliffe, Clare, Hlderlin, P.B. Shelley, and Hogg. Celebrating the wild provided Romantic-period authors with a way of thinking about nature that resists instrumentalization and anthropocentricism, but writing about wilderness also engaged them in debates about the sublime and picturesque as aesthetic categories, about gender and the cultivation of independence as natural, and about the ability of natural forces to resist categorical or literal enclosure. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Romanticism, environmental literature, environmental history, and the environmental humanities more broadly.
9781000380415 1000380416 9780367496746 0367496747 9781000380361 100038036X
European literature--History and criticism.--19th century
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Romanticism--Great Britain.
Romanticism--Europe.
Nature in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
NATURE / Ecology
PN98.R65 / W55 2021 PN92
809/.9145
"Earthscan from Routledge"
Wild Romanticism consolidates contemporary thinking about conceptions of the wild in British and European Romanticism, clarifying the emergence of wilderness as a cultural, symbolic, and ecological idea. This volume brings together the work of twelve scholars, who examine representations of wildness in canonical texts such as Frankenstein, Northanger Abbey, "Kubla Khan," "Expostulation and Reply," and Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, as well as lesser-known works by Radcliffe, Clare, Hlderlin, P.B. Shelley, and Hogg. Celebrating the wild provided Romantic-period authors with a way of thinking about nature that resists instrumentalization and anthropocentricism, but writing about wilderness also engaged them in debates about the sublime and picturesque as aesthetic categories, about gender and the cultivation of independence as natural, and about the ability of natural forces to resist categorical or literal enclosure. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Romanticism, environmental literature, environmental history, and the environmental humanities more broadly.
9781000380415 1000380416 9780367496746 0367496747 9781000380361 100038036X
European literature--History and criticism.--19th century
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Romanticism--Great Britain.
Romanticism--Europe.
Nature in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
NATURE / Ecology
PN98.R65 / W55 2021 PN92
809/.9145