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The Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism, 1790–1837

  • Katey Castellano
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Part of the Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print book series (PERCP)

Table of contents

  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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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

ecology Elegie English literature environment Romanticism William Wordsworth Wordsworth

Authors and affiliations

  • Katey Castellano
    • 1
  1. 1.James Madison UniversityUSA

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