Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology

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.

Author: Na Na
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/01/1900
Pages: 261
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.82w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780312234485

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2001 pg. 1796

About the Author
James McKusick is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of "Coleridge's Philosophy of Language" and numerous scholarly articles on Coleridge, Byron, and John Clare.