William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship: The Roots of Environmentalism in Nineteenth-Century Culture
Scott Hess, "William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship: The Roots of Environmentalism in Nineteenth-Century Culture "
English | ISBN: 0813932300 | 2012 | 304 pages | EPUB, PDF | 905 KB + 8 MB
English | ISBN: 0813932300 | 2012 | 304 pages | EPUB, PDF | 905 KB + 8 MB
In William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship, Scott Hess explores Wordsworth’s defining role in establishing what he designates as "the ecology of authorship": a primarily middle-class, nineteenth-century conception of nature associated with aesthetics, high culture, individualism, and nation. Instead of viewing Wordsworth as an early ecologist, Hess places him within a context that is largely cultural and aesthetic. The supposedly universal Wordsworthian vision of nature, Hess argues, was in this sense specifically male, middle-class, professional, and culturally elite―factors that continue to shape the environmental movement today.
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