Romantic Ecocriticism

Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies examines the influence of the science of the age upon a host of English and American authors. The collection of essays 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. Hall

Chapter 1. Ecological Horology: The Nature of Time during the Romantic Period - Marcus Tomalin

Chapter 2. Naturalists' Interpretations: Daffodils, Swallows, and a Floating Island - Dewey W. Hall

Chapter 3. 'It cannot be a sin to seek to save an earth-born being': Radical Ecotheology in
Byron's Heaven and Earth - J. Andrew Hubbell

Chapter 4. Process and Presence: Geological Influence and Innovation in Shelley's 'Mont Blanc' - Bryon Williams

Chapter 5. 'Perpetual Analogies' and 'Occult Harmonies': Ralph Waldo Emerson's Ecological Selves - Kaitlin Mondello

Chapter 6. An Uncertain Spirit of an Unstable Place: Frankenstein in the Anthropocene - Shalon Noble

Chapter 7. Wild West and Western Wildness: A Transatlantic Perspective - Jude Frodyma

Chapter 8. Ecocentering the Self: William Howitt, Thoreau, and the Environmental Imagination - Ryan David Leack

Chapter 9. Toward a Romantic Poetics of Acknowledgement: Wordsworth, Clare, and Aldo Leopold's 'Land Ethic' - Gary Harrison


Chapter 10. Small is Beautiful: Rethinking Localism from Wordsworth to Eliot - Alicia Carroll

Chapter 11. Byron's Flower Power: Ecology and Effeminacy in Sardanapalus - Colin Carman

Chapter 12. The Miseducation of Chris McCandless: Romanticism, Reading, and Environmental Education - Lisa Ottum