John Clare Society Journal 2016
Title | John Clare Society Journal 2016 PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Kovesi |
Publisher | John Clare Society |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 2016-07-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0956411371 |
The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John Clare.
John Clare Society Journal 36 (2017)
Title | John Clare Society Journal 36 (2017) PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Kövesi |
Publisher | John Clare Society |
Pages | 49 |
Release | 2017-07-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 095641138X |
The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John Clare. 2017.
John Clare
Title | John Clare PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Kövesi |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2017-08-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1349591831 |
This book investigates what it is that makes John Clare’s poetic vision so unique, and asks how we use Clare for contemporary ends. It explores much of the criticism that has appeared in response to his life and work, and asks hard questions about the modes and motivations of critics and editors. Clare is increasingly regarded as having been an environmentalist long before the word appeared; this book investigates whether this ‘green’ rush to place him as a radical proto-ecologist does any disservice to his complex positions in relation to social class, work, agriculture, poverty and women. This book attempts to unlock Clare’s own theorisations and practices of what we might now call an ‘ecological consciousness’, and works out how his ‘ecocentric’ mode might relate to that of other Romantic poets. Finally, this book asks how we might treat Clare as our contemporary while still being attentive to the peculiarities of his unique historical circumstances.
Romantic Revelations
Title | Romantic Revelations PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Washington |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2019-09-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1487504500 |
Romantic Revelations shows that the nonhuman is fundamental to Romanticism’s political responses to climatic catastrophes. Exploring what he calls "post-apocalyptic Romanticism," Chris Washington intervenes in the critical conversation that has long defined Romanticism as an apocalyptic field. "Apocalypse" means "the revelation of a perfected world," which sees Romanticism’s back-to-nature environmentalism as a return to paradise and peace on earth. Romantic Revelations, however, demonstrates that the destructive climate change events of 1816, "the year without a summer," changed Romantic thinking about the environment and the end of the world. Their post-apocalyptic visions correlate to the beginning of the Anthropocene, the time when humans initiated the possible extinction of their own species and potentially the earth. Rather than constructing paradises where humans are reborn or human existence ends, the later Romantics are interested in how to survive in the ashes after great social and climatic global disasters. Romantic Revelations argues that Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, John Clare, and Jane Austen sketch out a post-apocalyptic world that, in contrast to the sunnier Romantic narratives, is paradoxically the vision that offers us hope. In thinking through life after disaster, Washington contends that these authors craft an optimistic vision of the future that leads to a new politics.
Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750–1884
Title | Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750–1884 PDF eBook |
Author | Seth T. Reno |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2020-08-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3030532461 |
This book questions when exactly the Anthropocene began, uncovering an “early Anthropocene” in the literature, art, and science of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. In chapters organized around the classical elements of Earth, Fire, Water, and Air, Seth Reno shows how literary writers of the Industrial Era borrowed from scientists to capture the changes they witnessed to weather, climate, and other systems. Poets linked the hellish flames of industrial furnaces to the magnificent, geophysical force of volcanic explosions. Novelists and painters depicted cloud formations and polluted urban atmospheres as part of the emerging discipline of climate science. In so doing, the subjects of Reno’s study—some famous, some more obscure—gave form to a growing sense of humans as geophysical agents, capable of reshaping Earth itself. Situated at the interaction of literary studies, environmental studies, and science studies, Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain tells the story of how writers heralded, and wrestled with, Britain’s role in sparking the now-familiar “epoch of humans.”
Romanticism and the Contingent Self
Title | Romanticism and the Contingent Self PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Falk |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 300 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 303149959X |
New Forms of Environmental Writing
Title | New Forms of Environmental Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy C. Baker |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2022-05-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1350271330 |
Surveying a wide range of contemporary poetry, fiction, and memoir by women writers, this book explores our most pressing environmental concerns and shows how these texts find innovative new ways to respond to our environmental crisis. Arguing for the centrality of individual encounter and fragmentary form in 21st-century literature, as well as themes of attention, care, and loss, Baker highlights the ways that fragmentary texts can be seen as a mode of resistance. These texts provide new ways to consider the role of individual agency and enmeshment in a more-than-human world. The author proposes a new model of 'gleaning' to encompass ideas of collection, assemblage, and relinquishment and draws on theoretical perspectives such as ecofeminism, new materialism and posthumanism. Examining works by writers including Sara Baume, Ali Smith, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Bhanu Kapil and Kathleen Jamie, Baker provides important new insights into understanding our planetary predicament.