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This book is an international collection of ecocritical essays that examine sustainability in relation to Romantic-era Britain. It examines Romantic works while interrogating issues of race, gender, religion, and identity, beginning with inspiration and creativity and ending with considerations about extinction and apocalypse.
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Introduction
Part I: Inspiration and the Imagination
Chapter 1: Coleridge's "Deep Romantic Chasm": Kubla Khan, the Valley of Rocks, and the Geomorphological Imagination
Adrian J. Wallbank
Chapter 2: Strict Machine: The DILLIAM Eco-Loop
Michael Angelo Tata
Chapter 3: Romantic Clouds: Climate, Affect, Hyperobjects
Seth T. Reno
Chapter 4: "In Some Untrodden Region of My Mind": Mental Landscapes in Keats's Poetry Huey-fen Fay Yao
Part II: Diets and Consumption
Chapter 5: Sublime Diets: Percy Shelley's Radical Consumption
Madison Percy Jones
Chapter 6: The Bloodless Church: Dualist Asceticism and Romantic Vegetarianism
Emily Paterson-Morgan
Chapter 7: The Horror of Starvation: Sustainability in Allan Cunningham's and John Francis Campbell's Supernatural Tales
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Part III: Alienation and Environmental Degradation
Chapter 8: First Child in the Woods: "Nature-Deficit Disorder" and the Future of Romantic Childhood
William Stroup
Chapter 9: "The Temple of Folly": Transatlantic "Nature," Nabobs, and Environmental Degradation in The Woman of Colour
Denys Van Renen
Chapter 10: A Pauper's Sustenance: Malthusianism and John Clare's "The Lament of Swordy Well"
Kultej Dhariwal
Part IV: Beasts and Monsters
Chapter 11: Masculinity, Monstrosity, and Sustainability in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Avishek Parui
Chapter 12: The Monsters of Zocotora: Negotiating a Sustainable Identity through the Environment in Elizabeth Inchbald's Nature and Art
Ben P. Robertson
Chapter 13: Wollstonecraft-Unnatural Woman: Between the Nature of the Feminine and a Gendered Nature
Molly Hall
Part V: Extinction and Apocalypse
Chapter 14: Shelley and the Limits of Sustainability
Adam R. Rosenthal
Chapter 15: Apocalypse Not Quite: Romanticism and the Post-Human World
Olivia Murphy
Chapter 16: Questioning Agency: Dehumanizing Sustainability in Mary Shelley's The Last Man
Lauren Cameron
About the Contributors
Index
About the author
Edited by Ben P. Robertson - Contributions by Lauren Cameron; Kultej Dhariwal; Molly Hall; Madison Jones IV; Olivia Murphy; Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns; Avishek Parui; Emily Paterson-Morgan; Seth Reno; Adam Rosenthal; William Stroup; Michael Angelo Tat
Summary
This book is an international collection of ecocritical essays that examine sustainability in relation to Romantic-era Britain. It examines Romantic works while interrogating issues of race, gender, religion, and identity, beginning with inspiration and creativity and ending with considerations about extinction and apocalypse.
