Une étude de la relation de l'homme à son environnement dans la littérature anglaise du règne de Charles II aux premières décennies du XVIIIe siècle. Avec une réflexion autour de la renaissance du paysage comme lieu d'interaction du vivant chez des auteurs tels que John Milton, Andrew Marvell ou encore Daniel Defoe. ©Electre 2024
When scholars of cultural studies consider representations of the land by British writers, the Romantic poets continue to dominate the enquiry, as though the period right before the intensification of the Industrial Revolution offers readers one last glimpse of untarnished nature. Denys Van Renen instead examines the British authors writing in the decades follow ing the Restoration of Charles II, writers whose literary works re-animate and re-embody the land as a site of dynamic interactions, and, through this, reveal how various cultural systems and ecologies shape notions of self and national identity.
Van Renen presents a rich and varied cultural history of ecological exchange-a history that begins in the 1660s, with Milton and Marvell's rejection of established Renaissance constructs, and ends with Defoe's Farther adventures, in which the noise of the persistent howls of animals pierces human representational systems, arguing that British literature from 1665 to 1726 represents a cognitive symbiosis between human and non-human.
As humans attempt to reduce the adverse effect of the Anthropocene, the author ultimately proposes that the aesthetics of British writers from the Restoration and early eighteenth century might be mobilized in order to rebind humans to their environs.
Paru le : 10/09/2018
Thématique : Essais et théories - Dictionnaire
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Denys Van Renen
Éditeur(s) :
Voltaire Foundation
Collection(s) : Oxford university studies in the Enlightenment
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : Non précisé.
EAN13 : 9781786941374
Reliure : Broché
Pages : VIII-254
Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 16.0 cm
Épaisseur: 1.5 cm
Poids: 0 g
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