The Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism, 1790-1837

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction Conservatism and the Intergenerational Imagination

      • Katey Castellano

      Pages 1-12

3. Imagination

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Intergenerational Imagination in Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France

      • Katey Castellano

      Pages 15-36

   3. “Their graves are green”

      • Katey Castellano

      Pages 37-62

4. Habitation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Thomas Bewick’s A History of British Birds and the Politics of the Miniature

      • Katey Castellano

      Pages 65-90

   3. Conservation or Catastrophe: Reflexive Regionalism in Maria Edgeworth’s Irish Tales

      • Katey Castellano

      Pages 91-111

   4. Subsistence as Resistance

      • Katey Castellano

      Pages 113-140

   5. Anthropomorphism and the Critique of Liberal Rights in John Clare’s Enclosure Elegies

      • Katey Castellano

      Pages 141-162

   6. Epilogue

      • Katey Castellano

      Pages 163-168

5. Back Matter

   Pages 169-219

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Analyzing Romantic conservative critiques of modernity found in literature, philosophy, natural history, and agricultural periodicals, this book finds a common theme in the 'intergenerational imagination.' This impels an environmental ethic in which obligations to past and future generations shape decisions about inherited culture and land.

• ecology
• Elegie
• English literature
• environment
• Romanticism
• William Wordsworth
• Wordsworth
• British and Irish Literature

"Castellano makes an important and original contribution to the growing number of environmental readings of the Romantic period. Her argument has the potential to reshape and even redefine the terms of the discussion, forcing readers to rethink easy assumptions about the political orientations of poets such as William Wordsworth and John Clare and offering new insights into artists such as Thomas Bewick and Maria Edgeworth. Her provocative and well-researched analysis is one that future scholars will be forced to reckon with." - Bridget M. Keegan, Creighton University, USA

• James Madison University, USA

  Katey Castellano

Katey Castellano is Associate Professor of English at James Madison University in Virginia, USA. She is the author of articles published in SubStance, Partial Answers, Romanticism on the Net, and Papers on Language and Literature. Currently, she is working on a book about Romantic period commons.

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