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Romantic Revelations - Visions of Post-Apocalyptic Life and Hope in the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
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Romantic Revelations - Visions of Post-Apocalyptic Life and Hope in the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
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Romantic Revelations shows that the nonhuman is fundamental to
Romanticism's political responses to climatic catastrophes.
Exploring what he calls "post-apocalyptic Romanticism," Chris
Washington intervenes in the critical conversation that has long
defined Romanticism as an apocalyptic field. "Apocalypse" means
"the revelation of a perfected world," which sees Romanticism's
back-to-nature environmentalism as a return to paradise and peace
on earth. Romantic Revelations, however, demonstrates that the
destructive climate change events of 1816, "the year without a
summer," changed Romantic thinking about the environment and the
end of the world. Their post-apocalyptic visions correlate to the
beginning of the Anthropocene, the time when humans initiated the
possible extinction of their own species and potentially the earth.
Rather than constructing paradises where humans are reborn or human
existence ends, the later Romantics are interested in how to
survive in the ashes after great social and climatic global
disasters. Romantic Revelations argues that Percy Shelley, Mary
Shelley, Lord Byron, John Clare, and Jane Austen sketch out a
post-apocalyptic world that, in contrast to the sunnier Romantic
narratives, is paradoxically the vision that offers us hope. In
thinking through life after disaster, Washington contends that
these authors craft an optimistic vision of the future that leads
to a new politics.
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