Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism Toward Urbanatural Roosting |
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| Author:
| Nichols, Ashton |
| Series title: | Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-283-06712-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2011 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $100.00 |
Book Description:
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The current emphasis on evolutionary ecology does not arise solely from a "green" sense of the interdependence between organisms and their environments; it derives from Romantic and Victorian thinkers as well. Charting a pervasive paradigm shift, Ashton Nichols chronicles the revolutionary turn away from the view of Enlightenment"Nature" as static and separate from humans as it moved towardsthe Romantic "nature" characterized by dynamic links among all living things.This book links...
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The current emphasis on evolutionary ecology does not arise solely from a "green" sense of the interdependence between organisms and their environments; it derives from Romantic and Victorian thinkers as well. Charting a pervasive paradigm shift, Ashton Nichols chronicles the revolutionary turn away from the view of Enlightenment"Nature" as static and separate from humans as it moved towardsthe Romantic "nature" characterized by dynamic links among all living things.This book links the eco-awareness of William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Percy Shelley to the eco-anxieties of Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, and Thomas Hardy in order to draw new conclusions abouttwenty-first century ideas of nature."