William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship : The Roots of Environmentalism in Nineteenth-Century Culture /

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"In William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship, Scott Hess explores Wordsworth's defining role in establishing what he designates as "the ecology of authorship": a primarily middle-class, nineteenth-century conception of nature associated with aesthetics, high culture, indi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hess, Scott
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wordsworth, William, > 1770-1850
Wordsworth, William, > 1770-1850 > Knowledge > Natural history.
Nature in literature.
Natural history.
Environmental policy.
Ecology in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Nature dans la litterature.
Environmental policy > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Picturesque vision, photographic subjectivity, and the (un)framing of nature
  • Wordsworth country: the Lake District and the landscape of genius
  • Wordsworth's environmental protest: the Kendal and Windermere Railroad and the cultural politics of nature
  • The Lake District and the museum of nature
  • "My endless way": travel, gender, and the imaginative colonization of nature
  • Epilogue: the ecology of authorship versus the ecology of community.

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