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The Ecology of Wonder in Romantic and Postmodern Literature

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The Ecology of Wonder in Romantic and Postmodern Literature - Economides, Louise
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This book traces the aesthetic of wonder from the romantic period through contemporary philosophy and literature, arguing for its relevance to ecological consciousness. Most ecocritical scholarship tends to overshadow discussions of wonder with the sublime, failing to treat these two aesthetic categories as distinct. As a result, contemporary scholarship has conflated wonder and the sublime and ultimately lost the nuances that these two concepts conjure for readers and thinkers. Economides illuminates important differences ...

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The Ecology of Wonder in Romantic and Postmodern Literature 2016, Palgrave MacMillan, New York

ISBN-13: 9781137482624

2016 edition

Hardcover