British Romanticism, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene

Higgins, David

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“…runs though it like a talisman. DavidHiggins's (2017) meticulous close reading of Tambora's textual legacies complements Wood's account and brings the methodologies of literary studies back to the fore. In reckoning with the cryptic wound that Tambora carved into Romantic culture, Higgins undertakes an intensive scrutiny of Byron's "Darkness," Shelley's "Mont Blanc," and the multi-authored text that Stamford Raffles compiled as he puzzled over the cataclysm and its implications.A second germane body of recent scholarship explores the period's imaginative geographies, its representations of space and place.…”

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Romantic ecocriticism: History and prospects

Davies

2018

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This essay examines the origins, development, and future of Romantic ecocriticism. British Romanticism has always been central to discussions of literature and the environment. Here, I offer the most extensive assessment to date of relevant scholarship. I concentrate on book‐length studies of British literature circa 1780–1830, generally excluding books about individual authors. I close by outlining a new agenda for the field. Instead of claiming to reveal the origins of contemporary environmental sensibilities, I argue, Romantic ecocritics should work towards a critical history of regimes of environmental exploitation. Part one of the essay analyses the paths taken and not taken in ecocritical studies of the Romantic period between 1970 and 2000. Part two parses the diversity of Romantic ecocriticism in the early twenty‐first century. Part three argues that Romantic ecocriticism's central concern should be the environmental changes associated with the industrial revolution.

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Romantic ecocriticism: History and prospects

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“…New geological ideas had a powerful impact on Romantic prose and poetry and encouraged the more radical questionings of sceptics such as Byron and Percy Shelley. 108 They also influenced more apparently conservative authors. For example, Charlotte Smith's most ambitious poem 'Beachy Head' (1807) offers a nature writing tour de force, as it moves through geology, landscape aesthetics, ornithology, botany, national and local histories, politics, folklore, georgic, pastoral and autobiography.…”

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