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Animality in British Romanticism : the aesthetics of species /

"The scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the concept of species. This book examines literary representations of human and non-human animality in British Romanticism. The book's novel approach focuses on the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heymans, Peter, 1983-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Colección:Routledge studies in romanticism ; 16.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. The environmental ethics of alienation: the ecological sublime
  • Green masochism: Coleridge's "The rime of the ancient mariner"
  • Hunting for pleasure: Wordsworth's ecofeminism pt. 2. Humans and other moving things: Wordsworth visits London (with Deleuze and Guattari)
  • The cute and the cruel: taste, animality and sexual violence in Burke and Blake
  • A problem of waste management: Frankenstein and the visual order of things
  • pt. 3. Revelation, reason, ridicule: the scientific sublime
  • A taste of God: natural theology and the aesthetics of Intelligent Design
  • Beauty with a past: evolutionary aesthetics in Erasmus Darwin's The temple of nature.