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Heymans, Peter, (1983-)

Animality in British Romanticismthe aesthetics of species /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Animality in British RomanticismPeter Heymans.
Reminder of title:	the aesthetics of species /
Author:	Heymans, Peter,
Published:	New York :Routledge,2012.
Description:	viii, 224 p.
Subject:	English literatureHistory and criticism.18th century
Online resource:	Click here to view
ISBN:	9780203114865 (e-book : PDF)

Animality in British Romanticismthe aesthetics of species /
Heymans, Peter,1983-

Animality in British Romanticismthe aesthetics of species /[electronic resource] :Peter Heymans. - New York :Routledge,2012. - viii, 224 p. - Routledge studies in romanticism ;16. - Routledge studies in romanticism ;18..

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-216) and index.

1. The environmental ethics of alienation : the ecological sublime -- 2. Green masochism : Coleridge's "The rime of the ancient mariner" -- 3. Hunting for pleasure : Wordsworth's ecofeminism -- 4. Humans and other moving things : Wordsworth visits London (with Deleuze and Guattari) -- 5. The cute and the cruel : taste, animality and sexual violence in Burke and Blake -- 6. A problem of waste management : Frankenstein and the visual order of things -- 7. Revelation, reason, ridicule : the scientific sublime -- 8. A taste of God : natural theology and the aesthetics of Intelligent Design -- 9. Beauty with a past : evolutionary aesthetics in Erasmus Darwin's The temple of nature.

"The scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the concept of species. This book examines literary representations of human and non-human animality in British Romanticism. The book's novel approach focuses on the role of aesthetic taste in the Romantic understanding of the animal. Concentrating on the discourses of the sublime, the beautiful, and the ugly, Heymans argues that the Romantics' aesthetic views of animality influenced--and were influenced by--their moral, scientific, political, and theological judgment. The study reveals how feelings of environmental alienation and disgust played a positive moral role in animal rights poetry, why ugliness presented such a major problem for Romantic-period scientists and theologians, and how, in political writings, the violent yet awe-inspiring power of exotic species came to symbolize the beauty and terror of the French Revolution. Linking the works of Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge, Byron, the Shelleys, Erasmus Darwin, and William Paley to the theories of Immanuel Kant and Edmund Burke, this book brings an original perspective to the fields of ecocriticism, animal studies, and literature and science studies"--Provided by publisher.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780203114865 (e-book : PDF)Subjects--Topical Terms:

179585
English literature
--History and criticism.--18th centuryIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR448.A55 / H49 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 820.936209034 / H618

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