Romantic Climates Literature and Science in an Age of Catastrophe /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Collett, Anne (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Murphy, Olivia (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern-19th century.; Fiction.; British literature.; Communication.; Environmental sciences.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; Environmental Communication.

This book seeks to uncover how today's ideas about climate and catastrophe have been formed by the thinking of Romantic poets, novelists and scientists, and how these same ideas might once more be harnessed to assist us in the new climate challenges facing us in the present. The global climate...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Romantic Climates: A Change in the Weather: Olivia Murphy
• 2. Domesticating Climate: Scale and the Meteorology of Luke Howard: Alexis Harley
• 3. Wordsworth in the Tropics of Cumbria: Elias Greig
• 4. Keats and the Poetics of Climate Change, 1816 and Beyond: Nikki Hessell
• 5. 'Out of season': The Narrative Ecology of Persuasion: Amelia Dale
• 6. 'This Thing of Darkness': Reading Atmospheric Disturbance in Matthew Lewis's Journal of a West India Proprietor: Anne Collett
• 7. When the Earth Moves: Clara Tuite
• 8.Utopia or Dystopia? The Romantics in Switzerland, 1816: Steven Hampton
• 9. Metaphor and the Unprecedented: Byron's 'Darkness' and Responding to Ecological Disaster: James Phillips
• 10. Orlando's Romantic Climate Change: Thomas H Ford
• 11. Afterword: Ghosts of 1816: Gillen D'Arcy Wood.