Wild romanticism / edited by Markus Poetzsch and Cassandra Falke.
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TextSeries: Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (xii, 211 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781000380415; 1000380416; 9780367496746; 0367496747; 9781000380361; 100038036XSubject(s): European literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Romanticism -- Great Britain | Romanticism -- Europe | Nature in literature | LITERARY CRITICISM / General | NATURE / EcologyDDC classification: 809/.9145 LOC classification: PN98.R65 | W55 2021PN92Online resources: Taylor & Francis | OCLC metadata license agreement Summary: 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.
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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.
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