Overview
Situated at the intersection between literature and the environment
Features contributions from a variety of well-known scholars of Romanticism
Offers a vantage point from which to reconsider both how the people we call the Romantics responded to the climates of their day and to think about how these climatic events shaped the development of Romanticism itself
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 disaster following Mt Tambora’s eruption in 1815 – the ‘Year without a Summer’ – is a starting point from which to reconsider both how the Romantics responded to the changing climates of their day, and to think about how these climatic events shaped the development of Romanticism itself.
As the contributions to this volume demonstrate, climate is an inescapable aspect of Romantic writing and thinking. Ideologies and experiences of climate inform everything from scientific writing to lyric poetry and novels. The ‘Diodati circle’ that assembled in Geneva in 1816 – Lord Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, John Polidori and John Cam Hobhouse and the gothic novelist MG ‘Monk’ Lewis – is synonymous with the literature of that dreary, uncanny season. Essays in this collection also consider the work of Jane Austen, John Keats and William Wordsworth, along with less well-known figures such as the scientist Luke Howard, and later responses to Romantic climates by John Ruskin and Virginia Woolf.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Olivia Murphy is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in English at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Romantic Climates
Book Subtitle: Literature and Science in an Age of Catastrophe
Editors: Anne Collett, Olivia Murphy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16241-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16240-5Published: 10 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16243-6Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16241-2Published: 29 June 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 224
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Fiction, British and Irish Literature, Environmental Communication