Literary Criticism Gothic & Romance
Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2003
- Category
- Gothic & Romance, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780802086976
- Publish Date
- Jan 2004
- List Price
- $29.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780802048639
- Publish Date
- Mar 2002
- List Price
- $52
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442679467
- Publish Date
- Dec 2003
- List Price
- $90.00
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Description
Given current environmental concerns, it is not surprising to find literary critics and theorists surveying the Romantic poets with ecological hindsight. In this timely study, Onno Oerlemans extends these current eco-critical views by synthesizing a range of viewpoints from the Romantic period. He explores not only the ideas of poets and artists, but also those of philosophers, scientists, and explorers.
Oerlemans grounds his discussion in the works of specific Romantic authors, especially Wordsworth and Shelley, but also draws liberally on such fields as literary criticism, the philosophy of science, travel literature, environmentalist policy, art history, biology, geology, and genetics, creating a fertile mix of historical analysis, cultural commentary, and close reading. Through this, we discover that the Romantics understood how they perceived the physical world, and how they distorted and abused it. Oerlemans's wide-ranging study adds much to our understanding of Romantic-period thinkers and their relationship to the natural world.
About the author
Onno Oerlemans is an associate professor in the Department of English at Hamilton College.
Awards
- Winner, Raymond Klibansky Prize, Canadian Foundation for the Humanities & Social Sciences