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Overview"Wild Romanticism consolidates contemporary thinking about conceptions of the wild in British and European Romanticism, clarifying the emergence of wilderness as a cultural, symbolic, and ecological idea. This volume brings together the work of twelve scholars, who examine representations of wildness in canonical texts such as Frankenstein, Northanger Abbey, ""Kubla Khan,"" ""Expostulation and Reply,"" and Childe Harold´s Pilgrimage, as well as lesser-known works by Radcliffe, Clare, Hölderlin, P.B. Shelley, and Hogg. Celebrating the wild provided Romantic-period authors with a way of thinking about nature that resists instrumentalization and anthropocentricism, but writing about wilderness also engaged them in debates about the sublime and picturesque as aesthetic categories, about gender and the cultivation of independence as natural, and about the ability of natural forces to resist categorical or literal enclosure. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Romanticism, environmental literature, environmental history, and the environmental humanities more broadly." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Markus Poetzsch , Cassandra FalkePublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.710kg ISBN: 9780367753511ISBN 10: 0367753510 Pages: 212 Publication Date: 09 January 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Introduction Cassandra Falke and Markus Poetzsch Weakness and wildness in Wordsworth’s ""The Brothers"" Emma Mason Wild freedom and careful wandering in the poetry of William Wordsworth and John Clare Sue Edney Plumbing the depths of wildness: from the picturesque to John Clare Markus Poetzsch Savage, holy, enchanted: Coleridge in concert with the wild Gregory Leadbetter Human grapes in the wine-presses: vegetable life and the violence of cultivation in Blake’s Milton Tristanne Connolly Wild plants and wild passions in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poems for Jane Williams Cian Duffy Wilding Europe and Childe Harold´s Pilgrimage Cassandra Falke Hölderlin, Heidegger, and hyperobjects William Davis ""Almost Wild"": Jane Austen’s dirtiest of heroines Colin Carman ""Wild above rule or art"": volcanic luxuriance, subterranean terror, and the nature of gender in Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance James Lesslie ""A strange unearthly climate"": James Hogg’s tale of the Arctic wild Robert W. Rix ""Vast and irregular plains of ice"": wilderness as smooth space in Frankenstein Mirka Horová Index"ReviewsWild Romanticism is an innovative and highly original collection of essays that makes a substantial and persuasive contribution to the discipline of environmental humanities. The topic of wilderness during the Romantic period is an important and largely unexplored area of scholarship, one that will be of compelling interest to scholars of British and European literature and environmental history. This book will appeal to a broad range of readers due to its bold originality and its relevance to contemporary environmental concerns. James C. McKusick, University of Missouri-Kansas City, author of Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology and co-editor of Literature and Nature: Four Centuries of Nature Writing. Wild Romanticism is an innovative and highly original collection of essays that makes a substantial and persuasive contribution to the discipline of environmental humanities. The topic of wilderness during the Romantic period is an important and largely unexplored area of scholarship, one that will be of compelling interest to scholars of British and European literature and environmental history. This book will appeal to a broad range of readers due to its bold originality and its relevance to contemporary environmental concerns. James C. McKusick, University of Missouri-Kansas City, author of Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology and co-editor of Literature and Nature: Four Centuries of Nature Writing Wild Romanticism is a timely response to ongoing debates about moving away from words such as nature or wilderness entirely because of their problematic histories or the pressing new realities of the Anthropocene. The wild in Romanticism can be internal or external, refer to plants, people, animals, and landforms. It can represent subjective modes of being or objective reality. Rather than rejecting the word as too messy, these essays revel in the dynamic qualities of the word wild. One of the highlights of this volume is its diverse span of topics, authors, and landscapes (both inner or outer) that are considered wild. This important collection pushes us to see the full intricacy of Romantic ecocriticism in a dazzling array of new perspectives that are as timely as they are relevant. Samantha C. Harvey, Boise State University, USA, in an excerpt from a review in The Wordsworth Circle Wild Romanticism is an innovative and highly original collection of essays that makes a substantial and persuasive contribution to the discipline of environmental humanities. The topic of wilderness during the Romantic period is an important and largely unexplored area of scholarship, one that will be of compelling interest to scholars of British and European literature and environmental history. This book will appeal to a broad range of readers due to its bold originality and its relevance to contemporary environmental concerns. James C. McKusick, University of Missouri-Kansas City, author of Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology and co-editor of Literature and Nature: Four Centuries of Nature Writing. Wild Romanticism is an innovative and highly original collection of essays that makes a substantial and persuasive contribution to the discipline of environmental humanities. The topic of wilderness during the Romantic period is an important and largely unexplored area of scholarship, one that will be of compelling interest to scholars of British and European literature and environmental history. This book will appeal to a broad range of readers due to its bold originality and its relevance to contemporary environmental concerns. - James C. McKusick, University of Missouri-Kansas City, author of Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology and co-editor of Literature and Nature: Four Centuries of Nature Writing. Author InformationMarkus Poetzsch is Associate Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University, where he specializes in British Romantic literature and ecocriticism. He is the author of Visionary Dreariness: Readings in Romanticism’s Quotidian Sublime and has published essays on John Clare, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Thomas De Quincey, Leigh Hunt, and Henry David Thoreau. His research considers intersecting themes, such as aesthetics and landscape gardening, pedestrianism and loco-description, anthropocentrism and ornithology, poetics, and ethics. Cassandra Falke is Professor of English Literature at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. Her books include Phenomenology and the Broken Body (co-ed. 2019), The Phenomenology of Love and Reading (2016), Literature by the Working Class: English Autobiography, 1820–1848 (2013), and Intersections in Christianity and Critical Theory (ed. 2010). She has published essays on romanticism, phenomenology, education, and the role of the reader. Her current project discusses acts of reading in light of recent theorizations of complicity. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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