Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies - Paperback

by Dewey W. Hall (Editor), James C. McKusick (Foreword by), Colin Carman (Contribution by)

This book examines the influence of the science of the age upon a host of English and American authors. The collection develops transhistorical and transnational perspectives to examine the invaluable place of Romantic literary studies as inspiration behind the rise of early environmentalism in the nineteenth century and its subsequent legacies.

Author Biography

Dewey W. Hall is professor of English at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is also the author of Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists: An Ecocritical Study, 1789-1912 (2014).