Shelley and the Revolution in taste : the body and the natural world
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Shelley and the Revolution in taste : the body and the natural world
（Cambridge studies in romanticism, 10）
Cambridge University Press, 2006, c1994
- : pbk
Available at 6 libraries
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"First published 1994, this digitally printed first paperback version 2006"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 275-292
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book brings together the themes of diet, consumption, the body, and human relationships with the natural world, in a highly original study of Shelley. A campaigning vegetarian and proto-ecological thinker, Shelley may seem to us curiously modern, but Morton offers an illuminatingly broad context for Shelley's views in eighteenth-century social and political thought concerning the relationships between humanity and nature. The book is at once grounded in the revolutionary history of the period 1790-1820, and informed by current theoretical issues and anthropological and sociological approaches to literature. Morton provides challenging new readings of much-debated poems, plays, and novels by both Percy and Mary Shelley, as well as the first sustained interpretation of Shelley's prose on diet. With its stimulating literary-historical reassessment of questions about nature and culture, this study will provoke fresh discussion about Shelley, Romanticism, and modernity.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: prescriptions
- 1. The rights of brutes
- 2. The purer nutriment: diet and Shelley's biographies
- 3. In the face: the poetics of the natural diet
- 4. Apollo in the jungle: healthy morals and the body beautiful
- 5. Intemperate figures: refining culture
- 6. Sustaining natures: Shelley and ecocriticism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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