Peter Heymans

Animality in British Romanticism

The Aesthetics of Species

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781138118362
• ISBN-10: 1138118362
• Artikelnr.: 57047845

Autorenporträt

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