Reclaiming Romanticism - Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonization

The earliest environmental criticism took its inspiration from the Romantic poets and their immersion in the natural world. Today the "romanticising" of nature has come to be viewed with suspicion. This open access book, written by one of the leading ecocritics writing today, rediscovers the importance of the European Romantic tradition to the ways that writers and critics engage with the environment in the Anthropocene era. Exploring the work of such poets as Wordsworth, Shelley and Clare, the book discovers a rich vein of Romantic ecomaterialism and brings these canonical poets into dialogue with contemporary American and Australian poets and artists. Kate Rigby demonstrates the ways in which Romantic ecopoetics responds to postcolonial challenges and environmental peril to offer a collaborative artistic practice for an era of human-non-human cohabitation and kinship.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Rigby, Kate (Monash University Rigby, Professor Kate Rigby, Professor Kate (Monash University Rigby, Rigby Kate
• Assisted by: Greg Garrard (Editor), Richard Kerridge (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781474290593
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-9059-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Environmental Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Romanticism, Literary theory, Literary studies: poetry and poets