Format:
IX, 219 S,
,
Ill.
,
23 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
9781137354198
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print
Content:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Conservatism and the Intergenerational Imagination; Part I: Imagination; 1 Intergenerational Imagination in Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France; 2 ""Their graves are green"": Conservation in Wordsworth's Epitaphic Ballads; Part II: Habitation; 3 Thomas Bewick's A History of British Birds and the Politics of the Miniature; 4 Conservation or Catastrophe: Reflexive Regionalism in Maria Edgeworth's Irish Tales; 5 Subsistence as Resistance: William Cobbett's Food Politics 6 Anthropomorphism and the Critique of Liberal Rights in John Clare's Enclosure ElegiesEpilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index 〈p 〉Analyzing Romantic conservative critiques of modernity found in literature, philosophy, natural history, and agricultural periodicals, this book finds a common theme in the 'intergenerational imagination.' This impels an environmental ethic in which obligations to past and future generations shape decisions about inherited culture and land
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Machine generated contents note:Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- PART I: IMAGINATION -- Introduction: Conservatism and the Intergenerational Imagination -- 1. Intergenerational Imagination in Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France -- 2. 'Their graves are green': Conservation in William Wordsworth's Epitaphic Ballads -- PART II: HABITATION -- 3. The Politics of the Miniature in Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds -- 4. Conservation or Catastrophe: Reflexive Regionalism in Maria Edgeworth's Irish Tales -- 5. Subsistence as Resistance: William Cobbett's Food Politics -- 6. Anthropomorphism and the Critique of Liberal Rights in John Clare's Enclosure Elegies -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Romantik
;
Konservativismus
;
Landnutzung
;
Nachhaltigkeit
;
Generationsbeziehung
;
Geschichte 1790-1837
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