The Ecology of Wonder in Romantic and Postmodern Literature
This book traces the aesthetic of wonder from the romantic period through contemporary philosophy and literature, arguing for its relevance to ecological consciousness. Most ecocritical scholarship tends to overshadow discussions of wonder with the sublim
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Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment Series Editor Ursula K. Heise Department of English University of California Los Angeles, California, USA
Aims of the Series Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment focuses on new research in the Environmental Humanities, particularly work with a rhetorical or literary dimension. Books in this series explore how ideas of nature and environmental concerns are expressed in different cultural contexts and at different historical moments. They investigate how cultural assumptions and practices, as well as social structures and institutions, shape conceptions of nature, the natural, species boundaries, uses of plants, animals and natural resources, the human body in its environmental dimensions, environmental health and illness, and relations between nature and technology. In turn, the series makes visible how concepts of nature and forms of environmentalist thought and representation arise from the confluence of a community’s ecological and social conditions with its cultural assumptions, perceptions, and institutions. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14818
Louise Economides
The Ecology of Wonder in Romantic and Postmodern Literature
Louise Economides University of Montana Missoula, Montana, USA
Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment ISBN 978-1-137-48262-4 ISBN 978-1-137-47750-7 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-47750-7
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