Writing Romantic Climate Change : Gendered Poetics and Critical Legacies in the Anthropocene
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| Title: | Writing Romantic Climate Change : Gendered Poetics and Critical Legacies in the Anthropocene |
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| Description: | In the Romantic period, women writers developed specific aesthetics and writing strategies in their engagements with climate change and climate catastrophe. Anya Heise-von der Lippe draws on intersectional feminist and ecocritical approaches to highlight gender as a complicating category in Romantic engagements with these topics. She addresses the ways in which gendered critical framings continue to resonate in current Anthropocene discourses that use Romantic conceptualizations of »Nature«, impacting contemporary approaches to the relationship between humans and non-humans in the ongoing climate catastrophe. |
| Authors: | Anya Heise-von der Lippe |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | English literature--19th century--Women authors--History and criticism, Nature in literature, Climatic changes in literature |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | In the Romantic period, women writers developed specific aesthetics and writing strategies in their engagements with climate change and climate catastrophe. Anya Heise-von der Lippe draws on intersectional feminist and ecocritical approaches to highlight gender as a complicating category in Romantic engagements with these topics. She addresses the ways in which gendered critical framings continue to resonate in current Anthropocene discourses that use Romantic conceptualizations of »Nature«, impacting contemporary approaches to the relationship between humans and non-humans in the ongoing climate catastrophe. |
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| ISBN: | 9783837672756 9783839472750 |
