Romantic Sustainability (eBook)

Ben P. Robertson is professor of English at Troy University.

List of Illustrations Abbreviations IntroductionPart I: Inspiration and the ImaginationChapter 1: Coleridge’s “Deep Romantic Chasm”: Kubla Khan, the Valley of Rocks, and the Geomorphological ImaginationAdrian J. WallbankChapter 2: Strict Machine: The DILLIAM Eco-LoopMichael Angelo Tata Chapter 3: Romantic Clouds: Climate, Affect, HyperobjectsSeth T. Reno Chapter 4: “In Some Untrodden Region of My Mind”: Mental Landscapes in Keats’s Poetry Huey-fen Fay YaoPart II: Diets and ConsumptionChapter 5: Sublime Diets: Percy Shelley’s Radical ConsumptionMadison Percy Jones Chapter 6: The Bloodless Church: Dualist Asceticism and Romantic VegetarianismEmily Paterson-MorganChapter 7: The Horror of Starvation: Sustainability in Allan Cunningham’s and John Francis Campbell’s Supernatural TalesFernando Gabriel Pagnoni BernsPart III: Alienation and Environmental DegradationChapter 8: First Child in the Woods: “Nature-Deficit Disorder” and the Future of Romantic ChildhoodWilliam StroupChapter 9: “The Temple of Folly”: Transatlantic “Nature,” Nabobs, and Environmental Degradation in The Woman of ColourDenys Van RenenChapter 10: A Pauper’s Sustenance: Malthusianism and John Clare’s “The Lament of Swordy Well”Kultej DhariwalPart IV: Beasts and MonstersChapter 11: Masculinity, Monstrosity, and Sustainability in Mary Shelley’s FrankensteinAvishek ParuiChapter 12: The Monsters of Zocotora: Negotiating a Sustainable Identity through the Environment in Elizabeth Inchbald’s Nature and ArtBen P. RobertsonChapter 13: Wollstonecraft—Unnatural Woman: Between the Nature of the Feminine and a Gendered NatureMolly HallPart V: Extinction and ApocalypseChapter 14: Shelley and the Limits of SustainabilityAdam R. RosenthalChapter 15: Apocalypse Not Quite: Romanticism and the Post-Human WorldOlivia MurphyChapter 16: Questioning Agency: Dehumanizing Sustainability in Mary Shelley’s The Last ManLauren CameronAbout the Contributors Index