Research Catalog

Title

Romantic ecologies and colonial cultures in the British Atlantic world, 1770-1850 / Kevin Hutchings.

Author

Hutchings, Kevin D. (Kevin Douglas), 1960-

Publication

Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009.

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Description

xi, 226 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Afro-British writer and abolitionist Ignatius Sancho railed against the abuse of domestic animals in the eighteenth-century London marketplace. Samuel Taylor Coleridge attacked the institution of slavery by writing a poem about animal rights. William Blake's allegorical depiction of American colonialism was as an act of sexual and ecological violence. By addressing these and other instances, the author highlights significant intersections between green romanticism and colonial politics, demonstrating how contemporary understandings of animality, climate, and habitat informed literary and cross-cultural debates about race, slavery, colonialism, and nature in the British Atlantic world.

Subject

• 1700-1899
• Geschichte 1770-1850
• Environmentalism > Great Britain > History
• Romanticism
• Human ecology in literature
• Imperialism in literature
• Nature in literature
• Race in literature
• Indians in literature
• Slavery in literature
• English literature > History and criticism
• English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
• Écologisme > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire
• Romantisme
• Écologie humaine dans la littérature
• Impérialisme dans la littérature
• Nature dans la littérature
• Race dans la littérature
• Indiens d'Amérique dans la littérature
• Esclavage dans la littérature
• Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique
• Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique
• Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique
• Great Britain > Administration > America
• Grande-Bretagne > Administration. > Amérique

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-217) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: the politics and poetics of green romanticism -- Naturalizing colonial relations in the British Atlantic World : slavery as fact and figure -- Race and animality in the British Atlantic World -- Gender, environment, and imperialism in William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion -- Enslaved brutes and brutalized slaves : animal rights and abolition in Coleridge and the Black Atlantic -- Environmental determinism and the politics of nature : William Richardson's The Indians, a tragedy -- Thomas Campbell's American idyll : colonial ideology in Gertrude of Wyoming -- Romanticism, colonialism, and the "natural man" in the writings of Sir Francis Bond Head and George Copway -- Afterward: colonialism and ecology.

ISBN

• 9780773535794
• 0773535799

OCLC

316666371

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library