In Common Things : Commerce, Culture, and Ecology in British Romantic Literature /

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"In Common Things explores the implacable agency of five common substances--stone, wood, oil, salt, and moss--in the life and literature of the Romantic period. It argues that these substances and their histories have shaped cultural consciousness, and that Romantic era texts formally encode th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rowney, Matthew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
English literature.
Ecology in literature.
Culture in literature.
Commerce in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance.
Culture dans la litterature.
Commerce dans la litterature.
Litterature anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • IN COMMON THINGS
  • Introduction
  • 1 "The Bones of the World": Mary Wollstonecraft's Social Geology
  • 2 Broken Arbour: Deforestation and the Cultural History of Trees in "The Ruined Cottage"
  • 3 "Strange Look'd it There!": The Paradox of the Palm in the Poetry of Felicia Hemans
  • 4 Preserver and Destroyer: Salt in The History of Mary Prince
  • 5 "Lin'd with Moss": John Clare's Rhizomatic Poetics
  • Conclusion: Plastic Rime
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index.

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