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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b7152013.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-292) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: prescriptions -- The rights of brutes -- The purer nutriment: diet and Shelley's biographies -- In the face: the poetics of the natural diet -- Apollo in the jungle: healthy morals and the body beautiful -- Intemperate figures: refining culture -- Sustaining natures: Shelley and eco-criticism -- Bibliography.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 298 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521471354".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 10".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "821/.7 20".
- catalog subject "Diet Public opinion History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Diet in literature.".
- catalog subject "Human body in literature.".
- catalog subject "Human-animal relationships Public opinion History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Human-animal relationships in literature.".
- catalog subject "Nature conservation Public opinion History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Nature in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR5442.B58 M67 1995".
- catalog subject "Romanticism.".
- catalog subject "Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 Political and social views.".
- catalog subject "Vegetarianism Public opinion History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Vegetarianism in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: prescriptions -- The rights of brutes -- The purer nutriment: diet and Shelley's biographies -- In the face: the poetics of the natural diet -- Apollo in the jungle: healthy morals and the body beautiful -- Intemperate figures: refining culture -- Sustaining natures: Shelley and eco-criticism -- Bibliography.".
- catalog title "Shelley and the Revolution in taste : the body and the natural world / Timothy Morton.".
- catalog type "text".