| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 230 pages) : illustrations |
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Nineteenth-century major lives & letters |
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Nineteenth-century major lives and letters.
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| Contents |
Prologue: urbanatural roosting -- Spring, vernal roosting: romantic ecocriticism: March: a new urbanatural year & the history of natural history; April: poetry and science & nature as culture, culture as society; May: species science & saving cities, saving tigers -- Summer, estival roosting: ecocriticism: June: vestiges of time & Thoreau and urbanature; July: wild animals have no souls & ecomorphic urbanature; August: the loves of plants and animals & romantic poetry and pleasures of nature -- Fall, autumnal roosting: urbanature: September: natural pleasure to natural pain & perfect bird, perfect poem; October: hawks I have watched & urbanatural roosting on display; November: science and poetry & a hard rain's gonna fall 182 -- Winter, hibernal roosting: beyond romantic ecocriticism: December: zoos: romantic rhinos & Victorian vipers; January: displaying human beings & romantic urbanature; February: death and dying & ecomorphic ecocentrism |
| Summary |
Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about 21st-century ideas of nature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Nature in literature.
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Natural history in literature.
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Human ecology in literature.
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Philosophy of nature.
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Urban ecology (Biology)
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Ecocriticism.
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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urban environments.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Ecocriticism
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English literature
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Human ecology in literature
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Natural history in literature
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Nature in literature
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Philosophy of nature
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Urban ecology (Biology)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230117990 |
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0230117996 |
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9781349287093 |
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1349287091 |
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