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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2012.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in romanticism ;
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| Online Access: | https://recursos.uloyola.es/login?url=https://accedys.uloyola.es:8443/accedix0/sitios/ebook.php?id=143588 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.