Beyond romantic ecocriticism : toward urbanatural roosting /
Ashton Nichols.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- xxiii, 230 p. : ill. ; 22 cm..
- Nineteenth-century major lives and letters .
- Nineteenth-century major lives and letters. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: urbanatural roosting -- Spring, vernal roosting: romantic ecocriticism: March: a new urbanatural year & the history of natural history; April: poetry and science & nature as culture, culture as society; May: species science & saving cities, saving tigers -- Summer, estival roosting: ecocriticism: June: vestiges of time & Thoreau and urbanature; July: wild animals have no souls & ecomorphic urbanature; August: the loves of plants and animals & romantic poetry and pleasures of nature -- Fall, autumnal roosting: urbanature: September: from natural pleasure to natural pain & a perfect bird, a perfect poem; October: hawks I have watched & urbanatural roosting on display; November: science and poetry & a hard rain`s gonna fall -- Winter, hibernal roosting: beyond romantic ecocriticism: December: zoos: romantic rhinos and Victorian vipers; January: displaying human beings & romantic urbanature; February: death and dying & ecomorphic ecocentrism.
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English literature--History and criticism.--19th century Nature in literature. Natural history in literature. Human ecology in literature. Philosophy of nature. Urban ecology (Biology) Ecocriticism.