Romantic Revelations : Visions of Post-Apocalyptic Life and Hope in the Anthropocene /

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"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 apo...

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Autor principal: Washington, Chris (David Christopher), 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Romanticism.
English literature.
End of the world in literature.
Apocalyptic literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Modern > 18th century .
Fin du monde dans la litterature.
Romantisme > Grande-Bretagne.
Litterature apocalyptique > Histoire et critique.
Litterature anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Apocalyptic literature > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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 is paradoxically the vision that offers us hope. Washington contends that these authors craft an optimistic vision of the future that leads to a new politics."--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9781487530310

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