Romantic Ecologies And Colonial Cultures In The British Atlantic World 1770 1850

Download or read book Romantic Ecologies and Colonial Cultures in the British Atlantic World, 1770-1850 written by Kevin Hutchings and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By addressing these and other intriguing questions, Kevin Hutchings highlights significant intersections between Green Romanticism and colonial politics, demonstrating how contemporary understandings of animality, climate, and habitat informed literary and cross-cultural debates about race, slavery, colonialism, and nature in the British Atlantic world. Revealing an innovative dialogue between British, African, and Native American writers of the Romantic period, this book will be of interest to anyone wishing to consider the interconnected histories of transatlantic colonial relations and environmental thought.