This book shows how the Romantics' aesthetic views of animality interacted with their moral, scientific and religious ideas. It argues that the discourses of the sublime, beautiful and ugly helped the Romantics represent their changing relationship with the animal world and understand the increasingly precarious state of their own humanity.
This book shows how the Romantics' aesthetic views of animality interacted with their moral, scientific and religious ideas. It argues that the discourses of the sublime, beautiful and ugly helped the Romantics represent their changing relationship with the animal world and understand the increasingly precarious state of their own humanity.
Peter Heymans is a Research Affiliate at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
Inhaltsangabe
Selected Contents: Introduction: The Aesthetics of Species Part I 1. The Environmental Ethics of Alienation: The Ecological Sublime 2. Green Masochism: Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 3. Hunting for Pleasure: Wordsworth's Ecofeminism Part II 4. Humans and Other Moving Things: Wordsworth Visits London (with Deleuze and Guattari) 5. The Cute and the Cruel: Taste, Animality and Sexual Violence in Burke and Blake 6. A Problem of Waste Management: Frankenstein and the Visual Order of Things Part III 7. Revelation, Reason, Ridicule: The Scientific Sublime 8. A Taste of God: Natural Theology and the Aesthetics of Intelligent Design 9. Beauty with a Past: Evolutionary Aesthetics in Erasmus Darwin's The Temple of Nature
Selected Contents: Introduction: The Aesthetics of Species Part I 1. The Environmental Ethics of Alienation: The Ecological Sublime 2. Green Masochism: Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 3. Hunting for Pleasure: Wordsworth's Ecofeminism Part II 4. Humans and Other Moving Things: Wordsworth Visits London (with Deleuze and Guattari) 5. The Cute and the Cruel: Taste, Animality and Sexual Violence in Burke and Blake 6. A Problem of Waste Management: Frankenstein and the Visual Order of Things Part III 7. Revelation, Reason, Ridicule: The Scientific Sublime 8. A Taste of God: Natural Theology and the Aesthetics of Intelligent Design 9. Beauty with a Past: Evolutionary Aesthetics in Erasmus Darwin's The Temple of Nature
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