Romantic ecologies and colonial cultures in the British Atlantic world, 1770-1850 /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hutchings, Kevin (Kevin Douglas), 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2009
Subjects:
1700-1899
Environmentalism > Great Britain > History.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Human ecology in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Nature in literature.
Race in literature.
Indians in literature.
Slavery in literature.
English literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
Romanticism.
Environnementalisme > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Écologie humaine dans la littérature.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
Nature dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
Romantisme.
romanticism (form of expression)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HISTORY > North America.
British colonies.
English literature.
English literature > Minority authors.
Environmentalism.
Colonies > Administration.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > Administration.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Amérique > Administration.
America.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Politics and Poetics of Green Romanticism
  • 1. Naturalizing Colonial Relations in the British Atlantic World: Slavery as Fact and Figure
  • 2. Race and Animality in the British Atlantic World
  • 3. Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion
  • 4. Enslaved Brutes and Brutalized Slaves: Animal Rights and Abolition in Coleridge and the Black Atlantic
  • 5. Environmental Determinism and the Politics of Nature: William Richardson's The Indians: A Tragedy
  • 6. Thomas Campbell's American Idyll: Colonial Ideology in Gertrude of Wyoming
  • 7. Romanticism, Colonialism, and the "Natural Man" in the Writings of Sir Francis Bond Head and George Copway
  • Afterword: Colonialism and Ecology.

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