Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature examines the deep connections
between the romantic rebellion against modernity and ecological
concern with modern threats to nature. The chapters deal with
expressions of romantic culture from a wide variety of different
areas: travel writing, painting, utopian vision, cultural studies,
political philosophy, and activist socio-political writing. The
authors discuss a highly diverse group of figures - William
Bartram, Thomas Cole, William Morris, Walter Benjamin, Raymond
Williams, and Naomi Klein - from the late eighteenth to the early
twenty-first century. They are rooted individually in English,
American, and German cultures, but share a common perspective: the
romantic protest against modern bourgeois civilisation and its
destruction of the natural environment. Although a rich ecocritical
literature has developed since the 1990s, particularly in the
United States and Britain, that addresses many aspects of ecology
and its intersection with romanticism, they almost exclusively
focus on literature, and define romanticism as a limited literary
period of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This
study is one of the first to suggest a much broader view of the
romantic relation to ecological discourse and representation,
covering a range of cultural creations and viewing romanticism as a
cultural critique, or protest against capitalist-industrialist
modernity in the name of past, pre-modern, or pre-capitalist
values. This book will be of great interest to students and
scholars of ecology, romanticism, and the history of capitalism.
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