Romanticism and Animal Rights
Romanticism and Animal Rights By David Perkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2003 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 0521829410 | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2003 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 0521829410 | PDF | 1 MB
Demonstrating how English Romantic writing took up issues of what we now call animal rights, this study joins the growing number of studies that seek precedents or affinities in English Romanticism for ecological concerns. An unprecedented amount of writing advocated kindness to animals in England during the second half of the eighteenth century. This theme was carried through many genres, from sermons to encyclopedias, scientific works to literature for children, and to the poetry of Cowper, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Clare and others.