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Green Writing

Romanticism and Ecology

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  • © 2000

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  1. James C. McKusick
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • James C. McKusick
    Pages 1-33

  3. Coleridge and the Economy of Nature

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    Pages 35-51

  4. Wordsworth’s Home at Grasmere

    • James C. McKusick
    Pages 53-76

  5. The Ecological Vision of John Clare

    • James C. McKusick
    Pages 77-94

  6. The End of Nature: Environmental Apocalypse in William Blake and Mary Shelley

    • James C. McKusick
    Pages 95-111

  7. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Writing Nature

    • James C. McKusick
    Pages 113-139

  8. Henry David Thoreau: Life in the Woods

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    Pages 141-169

  9. John Muir: A Wind-Storm in the Forests

    • James C. McKusick
    Pages 171-193

  10. Mary Austin: The Land of Little Rain

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    Pages 195-223

  11. Conclusion: Roads Not Taken

    • James C. McKusick
    Pages 225-228

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 229-261
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About this book

This book describes the emergence of ecological understanding among the English Romantic poets, arguing that this new holistic paradigm offered a conceptual and ideological basis for American environmentalism. Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, John Clare, and Mary Shelley all contributed to the fundamental ideas and core values of the modern environmental movement; their vital influence was openly acknowledged by Emerson, Thoreau, John Muir, and Mary Austin. By revealing hitherto unsuspected links between English and American nature writers, this book elucidates the Romantic origins of American environmentalism.

About the author

JAMES MCKUSICK is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. He is the author of Coleridge's Philosophy of Language and numerous scholarly articles on Coleridge, Byron, and John Clare.

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