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It traces developments in ecological prose such as “Romantic ecology,” analyzing Shelley’s debate with Malthus and the re-politicizing of “nature” through miasmatic flows. 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 \nThe first section discusses the discourse of famine in Shelley'sdebate with Malthus.Since the contemporary arguments aboutfamine and population are so vigorous,it seems an apt beginning.Tofocus on famine may help to ground further discussions of ecology inthe ‘politics of the body’.The analysis of representations of faminein Shelley's poetry in the following section shows how Shelley strivesto reconfigure‘nature’,to re-politicize it by emphasizing miasmaticflows(both material and moral).The next two sections can thus  \n## Shelley and the Revolution in Taste\n\ndevelop the notions of Romantic ecology from a grounding inShelley's imagining of famine,renewal and sustainability.Thecentral question here is,'what place do ecologies occupy in capitalistsociety?'Shelley's place within modernity must be scrutinized.  \nIn conclusion,how may we map the relationships betweenRomanticism,the Enlightenment,postmodernism?It has beencommonly assumed in recent academic debates that Romanticism(of which Shelley is taken to be a part)is anti-Enlightenment,andthat ecology is also,to a certain extent,anti-Enlightenment.Theseconcepts carry very serious ideological cargo(for example,anti-fascism).Shelley's use of writers from Monboddo to Malthus in hisfiguration of the body can hardly be described as a blatant anti-Enlightenment strategy.Is it necessary for an anti-capitalist dis-course,such as ecology or the Romantic critique of alienation,tooppose capitalism to its roots?While he is usually hailed as a proto-Marxist thinker,Shelley seems to be criticizing industry andcapitalism while he invests in the very naturalistic modes ofrepresentation and distribution of bodies that maintain the machinesof industry and commerce.  \nAs capitalism drains the earth's resources,it is necessary to thinkabout the status of the earth lest we fall into a slough of blood and soilpolitics.But the futurism of the pure ascetic body may also be adanger.There may be fascisizing(recoding and reterritorializing)tendencies within any of the discourses produced by the capitalistsocial machine.The problem must be analyzed squarely rather thanby shoring one discourse against another(a product of the veryfetishizing and abstracting process which generates the problem).Aware of this,the conclusion raises general questions about theproject of the book as a whole.  \n# THE POETICS OF FAMINE:SHELLEY AND MALTHUS\n\nShelley's vegetarian prose discusses famine explicitly.¹Questions ofdiaitia(the culture of diet)and sustenance(the means to life)cut acrossmore political boundaries than one might assume.Shelley criticizesMalthus with objections in part derived from his support ofGodwinian ideas about the perfectibility of man (explicitly attackedby Malthus).Malthus,however,provided a figurative frameworkthrough which Shelley coul","cbCairNgiblNAkyj","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairNgiblNAkyj","pdf",2135982,34,"English","# Sustaining natures: Shelley and ecocriticism\n## Introduction\n## Shelley and the Revolution in Taste\n## The Poetics of Famine: Shelley and Malthus","[{\"question\":\"What is the central focus of Chapter 6?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on how ecological discourse is tied to contested definitions of “nature,” and how Shelley’s debate with Malthus frames ecology through the politics of the body, including famine and food.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the chapter relate Shelley’s ideas to Malthus?\",\"answer\":\"It shows Shelley criticizing Malthus in part through Godwinian concepts of human perfectibility, while also treating Malthus’s framework as a way Shelley can think ecologically.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the chapter discuss capitalism and sustainability together?\",\"answer\":\"Because capitalism drains the earth’s resources, the chapter argues for rethinking the earth’s status and examines dangers as well as benefits of sustainability and ecological reform.\"}]","Sustaining natures: Shelley and ecocriticism - Chapter 6 | PDF",1792100655,52]