Ecology and the Literature of the British Left

Name: Ecology and the Literature of the British Left
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Premised on the belief that a social and an ecological agenda are compatible, this collection offers readings in the ecology of left and radical writing from the Romantic period to the present. While early ecocriticism tended to elide the bitter divisions within and between societies, recent practitioners of ecofeminism, environmental justice, and social ecology have argued that the social, the economic and the environmental have to be seen as part of the same process. Taking up this challenge, the contributors trace the origins of an environmental sensibility and of the modern left to their roots in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, charting the ways in which the literary imagination responds to the political, industrial and agrarian revolutions. Topics include Samuel Taylor Coleridge's credentials as a green writer, the interaction between John Ruskin's religious and political ideas and his changing view of nature, William Morris and the Garden City movement, H. G. Wells and the Fabians, the devastated landscapes in the poetry and fiction of the First World War, and the leftist pastoral poetry of the 1930s. In historicizing and connecting environmentally sensitive literature with socialist thought, these essays explore the interactive vision of nature and society in the work of writers ranging from William Wordsworth and John Clare to John Berger and John Burnside.

Author Biography:

John Rignall is Emeritus Reader in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. H. Gustav Klaus is Emeritus Professor of the Literature of the British Isles at the University of Rostock. Valentine Cunningham is Professor of English Literature at Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in English at Corpus Christi College. H. Gustav Klaus, John Rignall, Richard Kerridge, Seamus Perry, Helena Kelly, Mina Gorji, Simon Kovesi, Stephen Harrison, John Rignall, Dinah Birch, Anna Vaninskaya, John Sloan, William Greenslade, Valentine Cunningham, James Radcliffe, Christian Schmitt-Kilb, Graeme Macdonald.

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August 28th, 2012

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Edited by John Rignall

Pages

280

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156x234x18

ISBN-13

9781409418221

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20222178

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