Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and a note on the text; Introduction: prescriptions; 1 The rights of brutes; A small sect of brahmins; The cry of nature; Diet and radical politics; A constitutional disease; A natural society; 2 The purer nutriment: diet and Shelley's biographies; Milton s hospital; Early years; Radical consumers; London, bragknell and marlow; Italy; 3 In the face: the poetics of the natural diet; Introduction; Queen mab; The alastor volume; Laon and cythna; Marenghl; Prometheus unbound
4 Apollo in the jungle: healthy morals and the body beautifulIntroduction; Shelley's reading and translation of plutarch; Queen mab note 17 and A vindication of natural diet; Disfigured figures in shelley's poetry; Vegetable system; A refutation of deism; Shelley on the game laws; Shelley s sources i ritson and monboddo; 5 Intemperate figures: re-fining culture; Introduction; The assassins; Frozen blood and bacchanals; The politics of ecstasy and denial; Bread and blood: the i 8 i 9 volume; Culture and luxury: the cenci, swellfoot the tyrant and charles I
6 Sustaining natures: Shelley and ecocriticismIntroduction; The poetics of famine i shelley and malthus; Greening the desert: famine and a 'romantic ecology'?; Social ecology and sustainability; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Analysis
English poetry
Notes
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-292) and index