UID:
edocfu_9959228674602883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
0-511-83484-5
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0-511-58208-0
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0-511-00090-1
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 10
Content:
This book brings together the themes of diet, consumption, the body, and human relationships with the natural world, in a highly original study of Shelley. A campaigning vegetarian and proto-ecological thinker, Shelley may seem to us curiously modern, but Morton offers an illuminatingly broad context for Shelley's views in eighteenth-century social and political thought concerning the relationships between humanity and nature. The book is at once grounded in the revolutionary history of the period 1790-1820, and informed by current theoretical issues and anthropological and sociological approaches to literature. Morton provides challenging new readings of much-debated poems, plays, and novels by both Percy and Mary Shelley, as well as the first sustained interpretation of Shelley's prose on diet. With its stimulating literary-historical reassessment of questions about nature and culture, this study will provoke fresh discussion about Shelley, Romanticism, and modernity.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction: prescriptions -- The rights of brutes -- The purer nutriment: diet and Shelley's biographies -- In the face: the poetics of the natural diet -- Apollo in the jungle: healthy morals and the body beautiful -- Intemperate figures: refining culture -- Sustaining natures: Shelley and eco-criticism -- Bibliography.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-02475-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-47135-4
Language:
English
