The scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the
Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the
concept of species. This book examines literary representations of
human and non-human animality in British Romanticism. The book's
novel approach focuses on the role of aesthetic taste in the
Romantic understanding of the animal. Concentrating on the
discourses of the sublime, the beautiful, and the ugly, Heymans
argues that the Romantics' aesthetic views of animality
influenced-and were influenced by-their moral, scientific,
political, and theological judgment. The study reveals how feelings
of environmental alienation and disgust played a positive moral
role in animal rights poetry, why ugliness presented such a major
problem for Romantic-period scientists and theologians, and how, in
political writings, the violent yet awe-inspiring power of exotic
species came to symbolize the beauty and terror of the French
Revolution.
Linking the works of Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge, Byron, the
Shelleys, Erasmus Darwin, and William Paley to the theories of
Immanuel Kant and Edmund Burke, this book brings an original
perspective to the fields of ecocriticism, animal studies, and
literature and science studies.
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