Romantic climates : literature and science in an age of catastrophe /: literature and science in an age of catastrophe. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Anne Collett, Olivia Murphy, editors.
• Editors: Collett, Anne; Murphy, Olivia, 1983-
• Contents: Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Dialogue: Weaving a Web of Awareness; Chapter 1: Romantic Climates: A Change in the Weather; Chapter 2: Domesticating Climate: Scale and the Meteorology of Luke Howard; Chapter 3: Wordsworth in the Tropics of Cumbria; Chapter 4: Keats and the Poetics of Climate Change, 1816 and Beyond; Chapter 5: 'Out of Season': The Narrative Ecology of Persuasion; Austen and the Year Without a Summer; The Ecology of Persuasion; Meaning to Have Spring Again; Out of Season Chapter 6: 'This Thing of Darkness': Reading Atmospheric Disturbance in Matthew Lewis's Journal of a West India ProprietorDistant Relations; An Inheritance; The Text; Conclusion; Chapter 7: When the Earth Moves; Introduction; Teleconnections; In the Smoky Distance; Spectral Projections; Moving Granite; A Heart-Quake; Conclusion; Chapter 8: Utopia or Dystopia? The Romantics in Switzerland, 1816; Chapter 9: Metaphor and the Unprecedented: Byron's 'Darkness' and Responding to Ecological Disaster; Chapter 10: Orlando's Romantic Climate Change; Chapter 11: Afterword: Ghosts of 1816 Climate Shock: The Three Stages1816 Redivivus: Romantic Teleconnections; Works Cited; Index
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (238 pages)
• Subjects: 820.9356; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Literature and science; Science in literature; Climatic changes; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030162412; 3030162419
• Related ISBNs: 9783030162405
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based upon print version of record.
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