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  1. Romantic revelations
    visions of post-apocalyptic life and hope in the Anthropocene
    Author: Washington, Chris
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    "Romantic Revelations shows that the nonhuman is fundamental to Romanticism's political responses to climatic catastrophes. Exploring what he calls "post-apocalyptic Romanticism," Chris Washington intervenes in the critical conversation that has long... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    "Romantic Revelations shows that the nonhuman is fundamental to Romanticism's political responses to climatic catastrophes. Exploring what he calls "post-apocalyptic Romanticism," Chris Washington intervenes in the critical conversation that has long defined Romanticism as an apocalyptic field. "Apocalypse" means "the revelation of a perfected world," which sees Romanticism's back-to-nature environmentalism as a return to paradise and peace on earth. Romantic Revelations, however, demonstrates that the destructive climate change events of 1816, "the year without a summer," changed Romantic thinking about the environment and the end of the world. Their post-apocalyptic visions correlate to the beginning of the Anthropocene, the time when humans initiated the possible extinction of their own species and potentially the earth. Rather than constructing paradises where humans are reborn or human existence ends, the later Romantics are interested in how to survive in the ashes after great social and climatic global disasters. Romantic Revelations argues that Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, John Clare, and Jane Austen sketch out a post-apocalyptic world that is paradoxically the vision that offers us hope. Washington contends that these authors craft an optimistic vision of the future that leads to a new politics."--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781487504502; 1487504500
    RVK Categories: HL 1131
    Subjects: English literature; English literature; Apocalyptic literature; Romanticism; End of the world in literature; Apocalyptic literature; End of the world in literature; English literature; Romanticism; Great Britain; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: ix, 252 Seiten, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Romantic revelations
    visions of post-apocalyptic life and hope in the Anthropocene
    Author: Washington, Chris
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    "Romantic Revelations shows that the nonhuman is fundamental to Romanticism's political responses to climatic catastrophes. Exploring what he calls "post-apocalyptic Romanticism," Chris Washington intervenes in the critical conversation that has long... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    10 A 105642
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    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
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    GE 2020/2740
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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
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    2019 A 13393
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    Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    ANG:HC:372:Was::2019
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    Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim
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    500 HL 1131 W317
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    "Romantic Revelations shows that the nonhuman is fundamental to Romanticism's political responses to climatic catastrophes. Exploring what he calls "post-apocalyptic Romanticism," Chris Washington intervenes in the critical conversation that has long defined Romanticism as an apocalyptic field. "Apocalypse" means "the revelation of a perfected world," which sees Romanticism's back-to-nature environmentalism as a return to paradise and peace on earth. Romantic Revelations, however, demonstrates that the destructive climate change events of 1816, "the year without a summer," changed Romantic thinking about the environment and the end of the world. Their post-apocalyptic visions correlate to the beginning of the Anthropocene, the time when humans initiated the possible extinction of their own species and potentially the earth. Rather than constructing paradises where humans are reborn or human existence ends, the later Romantics are interested in how to survive in the ashes after great social and climatic global disasters. Romantic Revelations argues that Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, John Clare, and Jane Austen sketch out a post-apocalyptic world that is paradoxically the vision that offers us hope. Washington contends that these authors craft an optimistic vision of the future that leads to a new politics."--

     
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    Content information
    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781487504502; 1487504500
    RVK Categories: HL 1131
    Subjects: English literature; English literature; Apocalyptic literature; Romanticism; End of the world in literature; Apocalyptic literature; End of the world in literature; English literature; Romanticism; Great Britain; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: ix, 252 Seiten, 24 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index