Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 313 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 666 g
The Body and the Natural World
Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 313 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 666 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
ISBN: 978-0-521-47135-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
This book brings together the themes of diet, consumption, the body, and human relationships with the natural world, in a highly original study of Shelley. A campaigning vegetarian and proto-ecological thinker, Shelley may seem to us curiously modern, but Morton offers an illuminatingly broad context for Shelley's views in eighteenth-century social and political thought concerning the relationships between humanity and nature. The book is at once grounded in the revolutionary history of the period 1790-1820, and informed by current theoretical issues and anthropological and sociological approaches to literature. Morton provides challenging new readings of much-debated poems, plays, and novels by both Percy and Mary Shelley, as well as the first sustained interpretation of Shelley's prose on diet. With its stimulating literary-historical reassessment of questions about nature and culture, this study will provoke fresh discussion about Shelley, Romanticism, and modernity.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgements; Introduction: prescriptions; 1. The rights of brutes; 2. The purer nutriment: diet and Shelley's biographies; 3. In the face: the poetics of the natural diet; 4. Apollo in the jungle: healthy morals and the body beautiful; 5. Intemperate figures: refining culture; 6. Sustaining natures: Shelley and ecocriticism; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
