Situated at the intersection of affect studies, ecocriticism,
aesthetics, and Romantic studies, this book presents a genealogy of
love in Romantic-era poetry, science, and philosophy. While feeling
and emotion have been traditional mainstays of Romantic literature,
the concept of love is under-studied and under-appreciated, often
neglected or dismissed as idealized, illusory, or overly
sentimental. However, Seth Reno shows that a particular conception
of intellectual love is interwoven with the major literary,
scientific, and philosophical discourses of the period.
Romantic-era writers conceived of love as integral to broader
debates about the nature of life, the biology of the human body,
the sociology of human relationships, the philosophy of nature, and
the disclosure of being. Amorous Aesthetics traces the development
of intellectual love from its first major expression in Baruch
Spinoza's Ethics, through its adoption and adaptation in
eighteenth-century moral and natural philosophy, to its emergence
as a Romantic tradition in the work of six major poets. From
William Wordsworth and John Clare's love of nature, to Percy
Shelley's radical politics of love, to the more sceptical stances
of Felicia Hemans, Alfred Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold,
intellectual love is a pillar of Romanticism. This book will
interest scholars and students of Romanticism, eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century British literature, affect studies,
ecocriticism, aesthetics, and those who work at the intersection of
literature and science.
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