Please see below for a call for contributors for a new essay collection on Romantic ecocriticism.<\/p>\n
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Romantic Ecocriticism:<\/strong><\/em> Call for Papers<\/em><\/p>\n Romantic Ecocriticism invites article-length papers that examine the influence of cultural factors on seminal writers from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For example, William Wordsworth read Gilbert White\u2019s The Natural History of Selborne<\/em>; Samuel Taylor Coleridge derived metaphors from the lectures by Humphrey Davy; Mary Shelley derived the basis for Frankenstein<\/em> from the vitalism debate initiated by John Abernathy and William Lawrence.<\/p>\n Suitable topics might include:<\/p>\n \u2022Scientific culture: natural history (e.g. botany, meteorology, chemistry, geology) or natural philosophy (e.g. materialism, vitalism, electricity, etc.) Submissions must include a title, abstract (200 word limit), CV and bio and, if possible, a draft of a paper (15-25 pages).\u00a0 These should be sent to dwhall@csupomona.edu<\/a> by the 31st of October for consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Please see below for a call for contributors for a new essay collection on Romantic ecocriticism. — Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies Dewey W. Hall, Editor California State Polytechnic University,… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOrigins and Legacies<\/strong><\/em>
\nDewey W. Hall, Editor<\/strong>
\nCalifornia State Polytechnic University, Pomona<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Aesthetic culture: the picturesque, topography, and cartography, especially William Gilpin, Adam Sedgwick, and William Mudge
\n\u2022 Religious culture: natural theology (e.g. divinity and nature), especially William Paley and William Whewell
\n\u2022 Environmental culture: Romantic naturalism, anti-industrialism, and the open space movement leading to the National Trust (e.g. John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, Hardwicke Rawnsley, and Octavia Hill)
\n\u2022 Transatlantic American culture: From Romantic naturalism to American early and modern environmentalists such as Ralph W. Emerson, Henry D. Thoreau, John Muir, Mary Austin, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson
\n\u2022 Ecological culture: Romantic influence upon Arne Naess\u2019s deep ecology movement (e.g. ecosophy, biocentrism, biodiversity, sustainability, etc.)<\/p>\n