IMAGINING NATURE by Dr. Kevin Hutchings ( 9780773523432 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

IMAGINING NATURE
BLAKE'S ENVIRONMENTAL POETICS

By:

Dr. Kevin Hutchings

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

077352343X

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9780773523432

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Publisher:

MCGILL-QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

5 May, 2003

Pages:

272

Description:

Considers William Blake's illuminated poetry in the context of the eighteenth-century model of 'nature's economy,' a conceptual paradigm that prefigured modern-day ecological insights, describing all earthly entities as integrated parts of a dynamic, interactive system. The author presents Blake's work as an example of 'green Romanticism'.

Synopsis:

By focusing on Blake's concern for the relationship between nature and ideology (including the politics of class, gender, and religion) Hutchings avoids the sentimentalism and misanthropic pitfalls all too often associated with environmental commentary. He articulates a distinctively Blakean perspective on current debates in literary theory and eco-criticism and argues that while Blake's peculiar humanism and profound emphasis upon spiritual concerns have led the majority of his readers to regard his work as patently anti-natural, such a view distorts the central political and aesthetic concerns of Blake's corpus. By showing that Blake's apparent hostility toward the natural world is actually a key aspect of his famous critique of institutionalized authority, Hutchings presents Blake's work as an example of "green Romanticism" in its most sophisticated and socially responsive form.

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Canada

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McGill-Queen's University Press

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