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British Romanticism, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene : Writing Tambora /

This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change. It analyses a wide range of texts by authors including Lord Byron, William Cobbett, Sir Stamford Raffles, Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley in relation to the global crisis produced by th...

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Main Authors: Higgins, David
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Literature
Literature, Modern > 18th century
Literature, Modern > 19th century
British literature
Climate change
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Eighteenth-Century Literature
British and Irish Literature
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67894-8
Summary: This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change. It analyses a wide range of texts by authors including Lord Byron, William Cobbett, Sir Stamford Raffles, Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley in relation to the global crisis produced by the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815. By connecting these texts to current debates in the environmental humanities, it reveals the value of a historicized approach to the Anthropocene. British Romanticism, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene examines how Romantic texts affirm the human capacity to
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (IX, 142 pages): illustrations
ISBN: 9783319678948
Index Number: PN760
CLC: I106

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