Higgins, D (2017) British Romanticism, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene: Writing Tambora. Palgrave Macmillan , Cham, Switzerland ISBN 978-3-319-67893-1
Abstract
This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change. It analyses a wide range of texts – by authors including Lord Byron, William Cobbett, Sir Stamford Raffles, Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley – in relation to the global crisis produced by the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815. By connecting these texts to current debates in the environmental humanities, it reveals the value of a historicized approach to the Anthropocene. British Romanticism, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene examines how Romantic texts affirm the human capacity to shape and make sense of a world with which we are profoundly entangled and at the same time represent our humiliation by powerful elemental forces that we do not fully comprehend. It will appeal not only to scholars of British Romanticism, but to anyone interested in the relationship between culture and climate change.
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Item Type: | Book |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s). This is an author produced chapter of a work published in Higgins, David, British Romanticism, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene: Writing Tambora, 2017, Palgrave Macmillan, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67894-8. |
Keywords: | Anthropocene; Global Warming; Nineteenth century; Poetry; Environment; British Romanticism; Climate Change |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Arts & Humanities Research Council AHRC AH/N006526/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2017 11:46 |
Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2020 01:42 |
Published Version: | https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319678931 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/978-3-319-67894-8 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:120709 |