British Romanticism, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene

First major literary-critical study of the relationship between climate change and British Romanticism
Challenges the critical tendency to understand Romantic nature writing as largely apolitical and concerned with individual and local experience
Looks at many of the key Romantic figures: the Shelleys, Byron and Coleridge

Autorentext

David Higgins is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published widely on Romantic literature and culture, including the monographs Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine and Romantic Englishness, and the co-edited collection Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism.

Inhalt
Introduction: Historicising Climate Change.- Chapter 1: Sir Stamford Raffles, Napoleon, and the Tambora Eruption.- Chapter 2: Print Politics and Climate in 1816.- Chapter 3: Byron, the Shelleys, and the 'Year Without A Summer'.- Afterword.- Bibliography.