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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.
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.
Robert Sayre brings a special kind of literary intelligence to
his study of the problem of isolation in modern society. He gives
us a spirited instance of a sociological approach to literature,
more specifically a Marxist approach that forcefully links a
literary theme to a social fact. In contrast to the existentialist
interpretation of alienation (in which isolation is the eternal
dilemma of Man), a Marxist analysis interprets solitude in society
as precisely a modern phenomenon, directly related to the evolution
of advanced capitalism.
Sayre first discusses the notion of solitude as it is treated
in classical literature and carries it through to the nineteenth
century, with emphasis on the literary history of France. In the
second part of the book he presents detailed interpretations of
five twentieth-century French novels (by Proust, Malraux, Bernanos,
Camus, and Sarraute). Controversial, but persuasive, these in-depth
studies are certain to influence the reader's way of looking at the
writers in question.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The
eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity
followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and
Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style
dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments
in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture,
architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional
works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic
operas, and more are also included. ++++The below data was compiled
from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of
this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping
to insure edition identification:
++++<sourceLibrary>Huntington
Library<ESTCID>N034450<Notes><imprintFull>
London, 1774]. <collation> 2],150p.; 8
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The
eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity
followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and
Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style
dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments
in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture,
architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional
works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic
operas, and more are also included. ++++The below data was compiled
from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of
this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping
to insure edition identification: ++++John Rylands University
Library of ManchesterT211327"Sold wholesale and retail at his map,
chart, and print warehouse, no 53, Fleet Street, London." London,
1786]. iv,94p.; 8
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