Shelley and the Revolution in taste : the body and the natural world /
"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...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1994.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2074 |
| Summary: | "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."--Pub. desc |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585000557 9780585000558 0511582080 9780511582080 0511000901 9780511000904 0521471354 |