Research Catalog

Title

Green man Hopkins : poetry and the Victorian ecological imagination / John Parham.

Author

Parham, John.

Publication

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2010.

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Description

308 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

This book, the first to consider Gerard Manley Hopkins as an ecological writer, explores the dimension that social ecology offers to an ecocriticism hitherto dominated by romantic nature writing. The case for a "green Hopkins" is made through a paradigm of Victorian Ecology that expands the scope of existing studies in Victorian literature and science. Parham argues that Hopkins developed a two-fold understanding of ecology--as a scientific philosophy constructed around ecosystems theory; and as a corresponding theory of society organized around the sustainable use of energy--as well as a corresponding poetic practice. In a radical new reading of the poems, he suggests that Hopkins translated an innovative nature poetry, in which rhythm conveyed a nature characterized by dialectical energy exchange, into a social "ecopoetry" that embodied the environmental impact of Victorian "risk" society on its human population. Located with a Victorian ecological imagination that fused romanticism and pragmatism, the book views Hopkins' work as indicating the value of reconciling a deep ecological assertion of the intrinsic value of (nonhuman) nature with social ecology's more pragmatic attempts to critique and re-conceptualize human life.

Series Statement

Nature, culture and literature, 1572-4344 ; 06

Uniform Title

Nature, culture and literature ; 06.

Subject

• Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 > Criticism and interpretation
• Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889
• Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889
• 1800-1899
• Ecology in literature
• Nature in literature
• Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Ecocriticism
• Nature dans la littérature
• Littérature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle
• Écocritique
• Ecocriticism
• Ecology in literature
• Literature and science
• Nature in literature
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-292) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Muddying the waters: towards a humanist ecocriticism -- The trajectory of a Victorian ecology -- Ways of understanding nature: ecology in Hopkins' intellectual formation -- Finding a voice: the development of a sustainable poetry -- Hopkins in the Victorian world: from a social to a human ecology -- Bewitched by the "spell of the sensuous": a disenchanted ecological imagination -- Re-enchantment.

ISBN

• 9789042031067
• 9042031069
• 9789042031074
• 9042031077

LCCN

2010525138

OCLC

• 667830886
• SCSB-11365921

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library