Animality in British Romanticism the aesthetics of species

"The scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the concept of species. This book examines literary representations of human and non-human animality in British Romanticism. The book's novel approach focuses on the...

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Autor principal: Heymans, Peter, 1983- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge 2012.
Colección:Routledge studies in romanticism ; 16
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pt. 1. The environmental ethics of alienation: the ecological sublime
  • Green masochism: Coleridge's "The rime of the ancient mariner"
  • Hunting for pleasure: Wordsworth's ecofeminism Pt. 2. Humans and other moving things: Wordsworth visits London (with Deleuze and Guattari)
  • The cute and the cruel: taste, animality and sexual violence in Burke and Blake
  • A problem of waste management: Frankenstein and the visual order of things
  • Pt. 3. Revelation, reason, ridicule: the scientific sublime
  • A taste of God: natural theology and the aesthetics of Intelligent Design
  • Beauty with a past: evolutionary aesthetics in Erasmus Darwin's The temple of nature.