British Romanticism, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene Writing Ta
This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change. It analyses a wide range of texts – by authors including Lord Byron, William Cobbett, Sir Stamford Raffles, Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley
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Writing Tambora David Higgins
British Romanticism, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene
David Higgins
British Romanticism, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene Writing Tambora
David Higgins School of English University of Leeds Leeds, UK
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To Edward, with love and hope
Acknowledgements
This book was started during a period of study leave funded by the School of English at the University of Leeds and completed while I held an Arts and Humanities Research Council Leadership Fellowship. I am very grateful to both institutions for funding this research and for the support of my fellow Romanticist and former Head of School, John Whale. I have benefited from the excellent research environment at Leeds, where I have worked with brilliant colleagues in the environmental humanities and Romantic studies. I must particularly thank Amy Cutler, David Fairer, Richard De Ritter, Carl McKeating, and Sebastien Nobert. I could not have found a better mentor for developing projects in the environmental humanities than Graham Huggan. Jeremy Davies has taught me most of what I know about the Anthropocene; he also read a complete draft of the book and commented on it with his usual rigour, sympathy, and perceptiveness. I have learnt much from the MA students on our Romantic Ecologies module, especially Izzy Gahan. I owe a great deal to the terrific
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