Radical Ecology of the Shelleys - Eros and Environment

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Primary Works and Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1: Queer Ecology and Its Romantic Roots

Chapter 2: "The Nature of Love and Friendship": Ecotones and Other Fine Lines in Percy Shelley’s Writings on Romantic Friendship

Chapter 3: Percy’s Shelley’s Hermaphroditus: Queer Nature & the Sex Lives of Plants in The Sensitive Plant and The Witch of Atlas

Chapter 4: Communal Ecology & the Queer Domesticities of Mary Shelley’s Maurice and Valperga

Chapter 5: Osculate Wildly: Earth-Kissing & Tree-Kissing in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man and Lodore

Conclusion: Tangled, or the Shelleyan Network

Index

About the author

Colin Carman earned his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2008. A former fellow at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, he has contributed to three book collections, Lacan and Romanticism (2019), Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies (2016) and The Brokeback Book: From Story to Cultural Phenomenon (2011). His articles have appeared in such journals as ISLE, European Romantic Review, GLQ, Studies in Scottish Literature and Horror Studies. A Contributing Writer at The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, he is currently an Instructor of English at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Summary

The Radical Ecology of the Shelleys: Eros and Environment is the first full-length study to explore a radically queer ecology at work in writings by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley as their discussions of nature and the natural consistently link ecology and erotic practice.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Carman, Carman Colin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367664589
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66458-9
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets