Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World

by Timothy Morton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521024757
• ISBN13: 9780521024754
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"