Shelley and the Revolution in taste

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"This book brings together the themes of diet, consumption, the body, and human relationships with the natural world, in a highly original study of Shelley. A campaigning vegetarian and proto-ecological thinker, Shelley may seem to us curiously modern, but Morton offers an illuminatingly broad context for Shelley's views in eighteenth-century social and political thought concerning the relationships between humanity and nature. The book is at once grounded in the revolutionary history of the period 1790-1820, and informed by current theoretical issues and anthropological and sociological approaches to literature. Morton provides challenging new readings of much-debated poems, plays, and novels by both Percy and Mary Shelley, as well as the first sustained interpretation of Shelley's prose on diet. With its stimulating literary-historical reassessment of questions about nature and culture, this study will provoke fresh discussion about Shelley, Romanticism, and modernity."--Pub. desc.

subjects: Body, Human, in literature,  Diet,  Diet in literature,  History,  Human-animal relationships,  Human-animal relationships in literature,  Nature conservation,  Nature in literature,  Political and social views,  Public opinion,  Romanticism,  Vegetarianism,  Vegetarianism in literature,  Shelley, percy bysshe, 1792-1822,  Human body in literature,  Human Body,  In literature,  Vegetarian Diet

People: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Times: 18th century