Title Shelley and the Revolution in taste : the body and the natural world / Timothy Morton

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) Series Cambridge studies in Romanticism Cambridge studies in Romanticism. Contents Introduction: prescriptions -- 1. The rights of brutes -- 2. The purer nutriment: diet and Shelley's biographies -- 3. In the face: the poetics of the natural diet -- 4. Apollo in the jungle: healthy morals and the body beautiful -- 5. Intemperate figures: re-fining culture -- 6. Sustaining natures: Shelley and ecocriticism Summary "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."--Pub. desc Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 -- Political and social views Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1792-1822 Ernährung. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Human body in literature. Human-animal relationships -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century Nature conservation -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century Vegetarianism -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century Diet -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century Human-animal relationships in literature. Vegetarianism in literature. Nature in literature. Diet in literature. Romanticism. Human Body -- in literature Diet, Vegetarian -- in literature Public Opinion romanticism (form of expression) POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Diet in literature Diet -- Public opinion Human-animal relationships in literature Human-animal relationships -- Public opinion Human body in literature Nature conservation -- Public opinion Nature in literature Political and social views Romanticism Vegetarianism in literature Körper Motiv Natur Motiv Tiere Motiv Vegetarismus Geschmack Ästhetik Vegetarisme. Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 0585000557 9780585000558 0511582080 9780511582080 0511000901 9780511000904

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