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Shelley and the Revolution in taste, the body and the natural world, Timothy Morton

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Shelley and the Revolution in taste

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Timothy Morton

Cambridge studies in Romanticism, 10Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

the body and the natural world

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 grounded in the revolutionary history of the period 1790–1820, and informed by current theoretical issues and anthropological and sociological approaches to literature. Morton provides challenging new readings of much-debated poems, plays, and novels by both Percy and Mary Shelley, as well as the first sustained interpretation of Shelley's prose on diet. With its stimulating literary-historical reassessment of questions about nature and culture, this study will provoke fresh discussion about Shelley, Romanticism, and modernity.--, Provided by publisher

Introduction: prescriptions -- The rights of brutes -- The purer nutriment: diet and Shelley's biographies -- In the face: the poetics of the natural diet -- Apollo in the jungle: healthy morals and the body beautiful -- Intemperate figures: refining culture -- Sustaining natures: Shelley and eco-criticism -- Bibliography

Shelley & the Revolution in Taste