Book ID: CBB063703915

Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists: An Ecocritical Study, 1789-1912 (2014)

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Dewey W. Hall asserts that William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson were transatlantic literary figures who were both influenced by the English naturalist Gilbert White. Hall examines evidence that as Romantic naturalists interested in meteorology, Wordsworth and Emerson engaged in proto-environmental activity that drew attention to the potential consequences of the locomotive's incursion into Windermere and Concord. He suggests that Wordsworth and Emerson shaped the early environmental movement through their work as poets-turned-naturalists, making a persuasive case for literature's importance to the rise of environmentalism.

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Review Megan Kitching (2016) Review of "Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists: An Ecocritical Study, 1789-1912". Archives of Natural History (pp. 185-185). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Faflak, Joel
Claborn, John
Harrington, Christopher
Thorson, Robert M
Goldstein, Amanda Jo
Youngquist, Paul
Concepts
Science and literature
Romanticism
Cross-national comparison
Science and culture
Science and society
Poetry and poetics
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Enlightenment
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
United States
England
Virginia (U.S.)
Germany
Europe
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