Introduction: Environmentalism, Class and Nature (original) (raw)

Edinburgh University Press eBooks, 2021

Abstract

While there are a number of competing accounts dealing with the Romantic period and the rise of green consciousness, whether it is the evolution of a poetic ‘green language’ or a scientific language of conservation that is being attended to, what is almost invariably communicated is an elite perspective. This is unfair and unhelpful to the diversity of the modern environmental movement. Referring to the essays in the collection, the introductory chapter argues for the necessity of a class-based approach to the development of a more politically relevant and inclusive ecocriticism.

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