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The Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism, 1790–1837

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137354204

ISBN: 978-1-349-46992-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Dec 2, 2015

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Introduction Conservatism and the Intergenerational Imagination

Castellano, Katey

Pages: 1 –12

[An astute reader of Edmund Burke, William Hazlitt recognized that within Burke’s conservatism lurked an anti-capitalist social ecology: he writes, “To think of reducing all mankind to the same insipid level, seemed to him [Burke] the same absurdity as to destroy the inequalities of surface in a...
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Intergenerational Imagination in Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France

Castellano, Katey

Pages: 15 –36

[Although many scholars have discussed Edmund Burke’s counterrevolutionary argument in favor of the aristocracy and church in his Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), the way in which his conservative, organic view is further associated with a concern for the health of the environment...
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“Their graves are green”

Castellano, Katey

Pages: 37 –62

[Like many of Wordsworth’s poems in the Lyrical Ballads (1798/1800), “We Are Seven” dramatizes an encounter between a middle-class traveler and the rural poor. The dialogic structure of the poem pits a little girl with a “rustic, woodland air” (LB 9), who is physically and emotionally attached to...
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Thomas Bewick’s A History of British Birds and the Politics of the Miniature

Castellano, Katey

Pages: 65 –90

[Eighteenth century natural history is inextricably linked to colonial expansion, which brought with it a swell of new species to be named, examined, and categorized — a “burgeoning proliferation of colonial natures.”1 As Mary Louise Pratt points out, the cosmopolitan, systematic arrangement of...
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Conservation or Catastrophe: Reflexive Regionalism in Maria Edgeworth’s Irish Tales

Castellano, Katey

Pages: 91 –111

[Offered to the public in 1800 as “a specimen of manners and characteristics, which are perhaps unknown in England,” Castle Rackrent: AnHibernian Tale Taken from Facts, and from the Manners of the Irish Squires, Before the Year 1782 represents itself as an ethnographic depiction of Irish manners...
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Subsistence as Resistance

Castellano, Katey

Pages: 113 –140

[Initially published as a series of seven pamphlets for the rural poor in 1821, William Cobbett’s Cottage Economy aimed to conserve and promote knowledge of basic farming and subsistence practices, such as brewing beer, baking bread, keeping livestock, and kitchen gardening. G.K. Chesterton...
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Anthropomorphism and the Critique of Liberal Rights in John Clare’s Enclosure Elegies

Castellano, Katey

Pages: 141 –162

[Marketed as a “peasant poet,” John Clare’s poetic identity is marked by his relationship to the natural world. His poems detail the vanishing topos of his childhood spent on common land; enclosure interrupts his walking paths with fences, cuts down beloved trees, and radically alters the visible...
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Epilogue

Castellano, Katey

Pages: 163 –168

[By revisiting the Burke/Paine debate through an ecocritical lens, this book recovers a social ecology that resides within the conservative and regionalist texts of the Romantic period. I have not attempted to make arguments about Romanticism as a whole, or even the entire political or literary...

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