Romantic Sustainability: Endurance and the Natural World, 1780–1830
Ben P. Robertson, Editor. Lexington Books: Lanham MD, 2015. Contributions by ASLE members Molly Hall, Madison Jones IV, Seth Reno, and William Stroup.
Romantic Sustainability is a collection of sixteen essays that examine the British Romantic era in ecocritical terms. This international collection addresses the works of traditional Romantic writers such as John Keats, Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and Samuel Coleridge but also delves into ecocritical topics related to authors added to the canon more ...
Wordsworth and the Green Romantics: Affect and Ecology in the Nineteenth Century
Lisa Ottum and Seth T. Reno, Editors. University of New Hampshire Press: Lebanon, NH, 2016.
Situated at the intersection of ecocriticism, affect studies, and Romantic studies, this collection breaks new ground on the role of emotions in Western environmentalism. Recent scholarship highlights how traffic between Romantic-era literature and science helped to catalyze Green Romanticism. Closer to our own moment, the affective turn reflects similar cross-disciplinary collaboration, as many scholars now see the physiological ...