Romantic Ecocriticism

Edited by Dewey W. Hall - Foreword by James C. McKusick - Contributions by Colin Carman; Alicia Carroll; Judyta Frodyma; Dewey W. Hall; Gary Harrison; J. Andrew Hubbell; Ryan David Leack; Kaitlin Mondello; Shalon Noble; Lisa Ottum; Marcus Tomalin and Bryo

This book examines the influence of the science of the age upon a host of English and American authors. The collection develops transhistorical and transnational perspectives to examine the invaluable place of Romantic literary studies as inspiration behind the rise of early environmentalism in the nineteenth century and its subsequent legacies.

Introduction - Dewey W. HallChapter 1. Ecological Horology: The Nature of Time during the Romantic Period - Marcus TomalinChapter 2. Naturalists' Interpretations: Daffodils, Swallows, and a Floating Island - Dewey W. HallChapter 3. 'It cannot be a sin to seek to save an earth-born being': Radical Ecotheology inByron's Heaven and Earth - J. Andrew HubbellChapter 4. Process and Presence: Geological Influence and Innovation in Shelley's 'Mont Blanc' - Bryon WilliamsChapter 5. 'Perpetual Analogies' and 'Occult Harmonies': Ralph Waldo Emerson's Ecological Selves - Kaitlin MondelloChapter 6. An Uncertain Spirit of an Unstable Place: Frankenstein in the Anthropocene - Shalon NobleChapter 7. Wild West and Western Wildness: A Transatlantic Perspective - Jude FrodymaChapter 8. Ecocentering the Self: William Howitt, Thoreau, and the Environmental Imagination - Ryan David LeackChapter 9. Toward a Romantic Poetics of Acknowledgement: Wordsworth, Clare, and Aldo Leopold's 'Land Ethic' - Gary HarrisonChapter 10. Small is Beautiful: Rethinking Localism from Wordsworth to Eliot - Alicia CarrollChapter 11. Byron's Flower Power: Ecology and Effeminacy in Sardanapalus - Colin CarmanChapter 12. The Miseducation of Chris McCandless: Romanticism, Reading, and Environmental Education - Lisa Ottum