Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 252 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781487530310
Content:
Romantic Revelations shows that the nonhuman is fundamental to Romanticism’s political responses to climatic catastrophes. Exploring what he calls "post-apocalyptic Romanticism," Chris Washington intervenes in the critical conversation that has long defined Romanticism as an apocalyptic field. "Apocalypse" means "the revelation of a perfected world," which sees Romanticism’s back-to-nature environmentalism as a return to paradise and peace on earth. Romantic Revelations, however, demonstrates that the destructive climate change events of 1816, "the year without a summer," changed Romantic thinking about the environment and the end of the world. Their post-apocalyptic visions correlate to the beginning of the Anthropocene, the time when humans initiated the possible extinction of their own species and potentially the earth. Rather than constructing paradises where humans are reborn or human existence ends, the later Romantics are interested in how to survive in the ashes after great social and climatic global disasters. Romantic Revelations argues that Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, John Clare, and Jane Austen sketch out a post-apocalyptic world that, in contrast to the sunnier Romantic narratives, is paradoxically the vision that offers us hope. In thinking through life after disaster, Washington contends that these authors craft an optimistic vision of the future that leads to a new politics
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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restricted access online access with authorization star
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781487504502
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Washington, Chris, 1980 - Romantic revelations Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2019 ISBN 9781487504502
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1487504500
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Romantik
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Literatur
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Englisch
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Weltuntergang
DOI:
10.3138/9781487530310
URL:
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
