The Politics of Nature: Wordsworth and Some Contemporaries

By Nicholas Roe

Book Overview

Taking into account recent developments in historical and ecological criticism, and incorporating fresh research into poetry and politics in the 1790s, the second edition of The Politics of Nature enlarges and updates Nicholas Roe's acclaimed study of Romanticism. Hitherto marginal figures are restored to prominence, and there is new material on William Wordsworth's radical years. The book includes the full text of John Thelwall's Essay on Animal Vitality with commentary, exploring how ideas of nature, revolution and radical science entwined.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333523148
• ISBN13: 9780333523148
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"