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Genre/Form: | History |
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Named Person: | William Wordsworth; William Wordsworth; William Wordsworth; William Wordsworth |
Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Scott Hess |
ISBN: | 9780813932309 0813932300 9780813932323 0813932327 9780813932316 0813932319 |
OCLC Number: | 748941720 |
Description: | x, 290 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Picturesque vision, photographic subjectivity, and the (un)framing of nature -- Wordsworth country: the Lake District and the landscape of genius -- Wordsworth's environmental protest: the Kendal and Windermere Railroad and the cultural politics of nature -- The Lake District and the museum of nature -- "My endless way": travel, gender, and the imaginative colonization of nature -- Epilogue: the ecology of authorship versus the ecology of community. |
Series Title: | Under the sign of nature. |
Responsibility: | Scott Hess. |
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Scott Hess has written a valuable book that reveals the limits of Romantic ecocriticism by explaining the danger of applying contemporary standards of environmentalism to an author like Wordsworth. Hess reveals that the apparent ecocentrism of many Romantic authors is based on aesthetic and cultural standards of their own era, not on our current land-ethic or an Audubon Society activism.--Ashton Nichols, Dickinson College This book provides the most searching, historically informed assessment to date of William Wordsworth's motives and commitments as laureate, resident, guide, and defender of England's Lake Country, and in the process offers a stringent critique of the limits of Wordsworthian 'ecology of authorship' as a model for latter-day environmental(ist) imagination and practice.--Lawrence Buell, Harvard University Scott Hess has written a valuable book that reveals the limits of Romantic ecocriticism by explaining the danger of applying contemporary standards of environmentalism to an author like Wordsworth. Hess reveals that the apparent ecocentrism of many Romantic authors is based on aesthetic and cultural standards of their own era, not on our current land-ethic or an Audubon Society activism.--Ashton Nichols, Dickinson College This book provides the most searching, historically informed assessment to date of William Wordsworth's motives and commitments as laureate, resident, guide, and defender of England's Lake Country, and in the process offers a stringent critique of the limits of Wordsworthian 'ecology of authorship' as a model for latter-day environmental(ist) imagination and practice.--Lawrence Buell, Harvard University Read more...
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- Wordsworth, William, -- 1770-1850 -- Knowledge -- Natural history.
- Wordsworth, William, -- 1770-1850.
- Nature in literature.
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- Ecology in literature.
- Environmental policy.
- Natural history.
- Great Britain.
- Umwelt.
- Natur.
- Ökologie.
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- Umwelt
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