Byron's Nature A Romantic Vision of Cultural Ecology
This book is a thorough, eco-critical re-evaluation of Lord Byron (1789-1824), claiming him as one of the most important ecological poets in the British Romantic tradition. Using political ecology, post-humanist theory, new materialism, and ecological sci
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Byron’s Nature
“Given the important role that Lord Byron’s short but massively influential poem ‘Darkness’ played in the development of eco-criticism, the lack of a systematic examination of Lord Byron’s views of nature and his function with the development of green romanticism has been both frustrating and perplexing. However, with the appearance of Drew Hubbell’s convincingly argued, strongly written and thoroughly researched Byron’s Nature, this deficiency has now been addressed in exemplary fashion. Opening with a much needed re-assessment of critical rejection of any importance attributed to Byron’s views of ‘nature,’ the work shifts to the crucial role Byron’s work played in the emergence of romantic environmental writing and closes with the compelling analysis of an ‘eco-cosmopolitanism’ that undergirds Byron complex views of ‘the interconnectedness of nature and culture as self-organizing systems at global levels of scale’. Hubbell’s corrective work is a must read for those interested in the critical and historical emergence of ecocriticism in the field, which led to the development of green romanticism . . . and to so much more.” —Mark Lussier, Senior Sustainability Scholar at the Global Institute of Sustainability Arizona State University, USA
J. Andrew Hubbell
Byron’s Nature A Romantic Vision of Cultural Ecology
J. Andrew Hubbell Susquehanna University Selinsgrove, PA, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-54237-9 ISBN 978-3-319-54238-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-54238-6
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