| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and index. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
Introduction: prescriptions -- 1. Rights of brutes -- 2. 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: re-fining culture -- 6. Sustaining natures: Shelley and ecocriticism. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 -- Political and social views.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. |
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Political and social views. |
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. |
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Human body in literature.
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Human body in literature. |
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Human-animal relationships -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century.
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Human-animal relationships -- Public opinion. |
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History. |
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18th century |
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Human-animal relationships. |
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Nature conservation -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century.
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Nature conservation -- Public opinion. |
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Nature conservation. |
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Vegetarianism -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century.
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Vegetarianism. |
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Public opinion. |
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Diet -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century.
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Diet -- Public opinion. |
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Diet. |
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Human-animal relationships in literature.
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Human-animal relationships in literature. |
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Vegetarianism in literature.
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Vegetarianism in literature. |
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Nature in literature.
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Nature in literature. |
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Diet in literature.
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Diet in literature. |
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Romanticism.
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Romanticism. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Morton, Timothy, 1968- Shelley and the Revolution in taste. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994 0521471354 (DLC) 94013360 (OCoLC)30111590 |
| ISBN |
0585000557 (electronic book) |
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9780585000558 (electronic book) |
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0521471354 |
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