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William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship: The Roots of Environmentalism in Nineteenth-Century Culture

William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship: The Roots of Environmentalism in Nineteenth-Century Culture

Paperback

Series: Under the Sign of Nature

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0813932327
ISBN13: 9780813932323
Publisher: Univ Of Virginia Pr
Published: Apr 12 2012
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship, Scott Hess explores Wordsworth's defining role in establishing what he designates as the ecology of authorship a primarily middle-class, nineteenth-century conception of nature associated with aesthetics, high culture, individualism, and nation. Instead of viewing Wordsworth as an early ecologist, Hess places him within a context that is largely cultural and aesthetic. The supposedly universal Wordsworthian vision of nature, Hess argues, was in this sense specifically male, middle-class, professional, and culturally elite--factors that continue to shape the environmental movement today.

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