Romantic Environmental Sensibility - (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism) by Ve-Yin Tee (Hardcover)

About the Book

Uncovers alternative ways of seeing the environment from the Romantic period.

Book Synopsis

Romantic Environmental Sensibility employs a class-based analysis in global studies. The chapters here reveal the extent to which our representations of the land, as well as of the plants, animals and people who live on the land, are imposed upon by habits of thought that are profoundly class-based. It shows how Green Romanticism has simplified Romantic period discourse by bringing to light the multiplicity of perspectives and long-standing inequalities that have been occluded and how current approaches to conservation and animal rights continue to be influenced by a class-bound Romantic environmental sensibility.

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Uncovers alternative ways of seeing the environment from the Romantic period Romantic Environmental Sensibility employs a class-based analysis in global studies. The chapters here reveal the extent to which our representations of the land, as well as of the plants, animals and people who live on the land, are imposed upon by habits of thought that are profoundly class-based. It shows how Green Romanticism has simplified Romantic period discourse by bringing to light the multiplicity of perspectives and long-standing inequalities that have been occluded and how current approaches to conservation and animal rights continue to be influenced by a class-bound Romantic environmental sensibility. Ve-Yin Tee is Assistant Professor in the Department of British and American Studies, Nanzan University, Japan.

Review Quotes

Romantic Environmental Sensibility: Nature, Class and Empire offers a boldly revisionary reading of environmental texts from the British Romantic period. The essays in this collection are profoundly concerned with questions of environmental justice and social class as manifested in the work of English aristocrats and working-class writers and in the perspectives of colonial overlords and local inhabitants throughout the British Empire. This book makes a vitally important contribution to the emerging discipline of ecocriticism.--James C. McKusick, University of Missouri-Kansas City, author of Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology and coeditor of Literature and Nature: Four Centuries of Nature Writing.

About the Author

Ve-Yin Tee is Assistant Professor in the Department of British and American Studies, Nanzan University, Japan. His most recent publication is the chapter for Transcultural Ecocriticism: Global, Romantic and Decolonial Perspectives (2021) edited by Stuart Cooke and Peter Denney, 'The Dark Side of Romantic Dendrophilia'. He is the author of Coleridge, Revision and Romanticism: After the Revolution, 1793-1818 (2009) as well as the teen novel On Donuts and Telekinesis (2014). He is currently working on Japanese steampunk sculpture.