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Romantic ecologies and colonial cultures in the British Atlantic world, 1770-1850 /
Why did Afro-British writer and abolitionist Ignatius Sancho rail against the abuse of domestic animals in the eighteenth-century London marketplace? Why did Samuel Taylor Coleridge attack the institution of slavery by writing a poem about animal rights? Did William Blake's allegorical depictio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montréal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2009
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Why did Afro-British writer and abolitionist Ignatius Sancho rail against the abuse of domestic animals in the eighteenth-century London marketplace? Why did Samuel Taylor Coleridge attack the institution of slavery by writing a poem about animal rights? Did William Blake's allegorical depiction of American colonialism as an act of sexual and ecological violence make him an early ecofeminist? When nineteenth-century Ojibwa author George Copway invoked Wordsworthian Romanticism and quoted various European Romantic poets in his autobiographical accounts of traditional Indigenous hunting practices and religious beliefs, was he embracing - or rejecting - the still-influential Romantic ideal of the "ecologically noble savage"? |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773576810 0773576819 1282867253 9781282867253 |