Reclaiming Romanticism - Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonization - Book front matter

Oct 6, 2026

Reclaiming Romanticism presents an environmental ecopoetics framework for understanding how culture responds to the environmental crisis, with a focus on decolonization. The text situates the work within Bloomsbury’s Environmental Cultures series and describes its editorial leadership and scope, highlighting interdisciplinary literary ecocriticism across nations and media. It also provides publication rights and bibliographic information, and outlines the book’s structure from introduction through decolonial ecopoetics, postscript, notes, works cited, and index.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages66

Reading Time1 h 42 min

AccessFree to download

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 'Come forth into the light of things': Contemplative ecopoetics

2 'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness': Affective ecopoetics

3 'piping in their honey dreams': Creaturely ecopoetics

4 'the wrong dream': Prophetic ecopoetics

5 'Deeper tracks wind back': Decolonial ecopoetics

Postscript: Ecopoetics beyond the page

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Reclaiming Romanticism Environmental Cultures Series Series Editors: Greg Garrard, University of British Columbia, Canada Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa University Editorial Board: Frances Bellarsi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Mandy Bloomfield, Plymouth University, UK Lily Chen, Shanghai Normal University, China Christa Grewe-Volpp, University of Mannheim, Germany Stephanie LeMenager, University of Oregon, USA Timothy Morton, Rice University, USA Pablo Mukherjee, University of Warwick, UK Bloomsbury’s Environmental Cultures series makes available to students and scholars at all levels the latest cutting-edge research on the diverse ways in which culture has responded to the age of environmental crisis. Publishing ambitious and innovative literary ecocriticism that crosses disciplines, national boundaries, and media, books in the series explore and test the challenges of ecocriticism to conventional forms of cultural study. Titles available: Bodies of Water, Astrida Neimanis Cities and Wetlands, Rod Giblett Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895–1941, John Claborn Climate Change Scepticism, Greg Garrard, George Handley, Axel Goodbody, Stephanie Posthumus Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel, Astrid Bracke Colonialism, Culture, Whales, Graham Huggan Ecocriticism and Italy, Serenella Iovino Fuel, Heidi C. M. Scott Literature as Cultural Ecology, Hubert Zapf Nerd Ecology, Anthony Lioi The New Nature Writing, Jos Smith The New Poetics of Climate Change, Matthew Griffiths This Contentious Storm, Jennifer Mae Hamilton Climate Change Scepticism, Greg Garrard, Axel Goodbody, George B. Handley and Stephanie Posthumus Forthcoming Titles: Ecospectrality, Laura White Teaching Environmental Writing, Isabel Galleymore Radical Animism, Jemma Deer Cognitive Ecopoetics, Sharon Lattig Eco-Digital Art, Lisa FitzGerald Environmental Cultures in Soviet East Europe, Anna Barcz Weathering Shakespeare, Evelyn O’Malley Imagining the Plains of Latin America, Axel Pérez Trujillo Diniz Ecocriticism and Turkey, Meliz Ergin iv Reclaiming Romanticism Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonization Kate Rigby BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in Great Britain 2020 Copyright © Kate Rigby, 2020 Kate Rigby has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designsand Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work. For legal purposes the Acknowledgements on p. x–xiv constitute an extension of this copyright page. Cover design: Burge Agency Cover image: Freya Mathews All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc does not have any control over, or responsibility for, any third-party websites referred to or in this book. All internet addresses given in this book were correct at the time of going to press. The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN: HB: 978-1-4742-9059-3 ePDF: 978-1-4742-9061-6 eBook: 978-1-4742-9060-9 Series: Environmental Cultures Typeset by Integra Software Services Pvt. Ltd. [To find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com](To find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com)[ ](To find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com)and sign up for

FAQs

What is Reclaiming Romanticism’s overall focus?

The work develops ecopoetics through literary ecocriticism and emphasizes decolonial approaches to understanding cultural responses to the environmental crisis.

How is the book structured?

It includes an introduction, five main chapters on different ecopoetics modes, a postscript, and supporting sections such as notes, works cited, and an index.

What kind of content does the Environmental Cultures series describe?

The series highlights cutting-edge research on diverse cultural responses to the environmental crisis, publishing innovative literary ecocriticism that crosses disciplines, national boundaries, and media.

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