Reclaiming Romanticism

Kate Rigby is Professor of Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa University and Adjunct Professor at Monash University, Australia. One of the world's foremost ecocritics, she was the founding President of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (Australia-New Zealand). Her previous books include Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism (2004) and Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times (2015).

Reclaiming Romanticism takes some risks in its approach, but invites trust from the reader thanks in part to Rigby’s clear, likeable style, which incorporates accounts of the author’s personal experiences. Ultimately Reclaiming Romanticism is able to bear the weight of its ambition because Rigby is in control of her wide range of material and knows when to temper her claims for what literature, and literary criticism, can achieve.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction Chapter One‘Come forth into the light of things’: Contemplative Ecopoetics Chapter Two‘Seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness’: Affective Ecopoetics Chapter Three‘Piping in their honey dreams’: Creaturely Ecopoetics Chapter Four‘the wrong dream’: Prophetic Ecopoetics Chapter Five‘deeper tracks wind back’: Decolonial Ecopoetics Postscript: Ecopoetics beyond the page Works cited