This book describes the emergence of ecological understanding among the English Romantic poets, arguing that this new holistic paradigm offered a conceptual and ideological basis for American environmentalism. By revealing links between English and American nature writers, this book elucidates the Romantic origins of American environmentalism. JAMES MCKUSICK is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. He is the author of Coleridge's Philosophy of Language and numerous scholarly articles on Coleridge, Byron, and John Clare. INDICE: Introduction Coleridge and the Economy of Nature Wordsworth's Homeat Grasmere The Ecological Vision of John Clare The End of Nature: Environmental Apocalypse in William Blake and Mary Shelley Ralph Waldo Emerson: Writing Nature Henry David Thoreau: Life in the Woods John Muir: A Wind-Storm in the Forests Mary Austin: The Land of Little Rain Conclusion: Roads Not Taken -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-10561-4
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 284
- Fecha Publicación: 19/01/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido