Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies

Edited by Dewey W. Hall – Foreword by James C. McKusick. Lexington Books: Lanham, MD, 2016.

Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is a collection of essays which develop transnational and transhistorical approaches to the proto-ecological early environmental aspects in British and American Romanticism. The edition’s transnational approach is demonstrated through transatlantic connections and comparisons among writers such as: William Wordsworth, William Howitt, and Henry D. Thoreau; John Clare and Aldo Leopold; Charles Darwin and Ralph W. Emerson; William Wordsworth and Emily Bronte; Thomas Malthus and George Gordon Byron; James Hutton and Percy Shelley; Erasmus Darwin and Charlotte Smith; and Gilbert White and Dorothy Wordsworth, among others. Romantic Ecocriticism offers a dynamic collection of essays dedicated to links between scientists and literary figures interested in natural history.