Shelley and the Revolution in taste : the body and the natural world / Timothy Morton.

By:

Morton, Timothy, 1968-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge studies in RomanticismPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585000557
9780585000558
0511582080
9780511582080
0511000901
9780511000904

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shelley and the Revolution in taste.DDC classification:

821/.7 20

LOC classification:

PR5442.B58 M67 1994eb

Other classification:

18.05
HL 4385

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Contents:

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: re-fining culture -- 6. Sustaining natures: Shelley and ecocriticism.

Summary: "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."--Pub. desc.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and index.

"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."--Pub. desc.