British Romanticism, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene

Writing Tambora

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David Higgins

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Hardback

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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 shape and make sense of a world with which we are profoundly entangled and at the same time represent our humiliation by powerful elemental forces that we do not fully comprehend. It will appeal not only to scholars of British Romanticism, but to anyone interested in the relationship between culture and climate change.

Author Biography:

David Higgins is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published widely on Romantic literature and culture, including the monographs Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine and Romantic Englishness, and the co-edited collection Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism.

Release date Australia

November 30th, 2017

Author

David Higgins

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Edition

1st ed. 2017

Illustrations

2 Illustrations, black and white; IX, 142 p. 2 illus.

Pages

142

ISBN-13

9783319678931

Product ID

26910146

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