Romantic Revelations - 9781487504502

Romantic RevelationsVisions of Post-Apocalyptic Life and Hope in the Anthropocene\nAuthor(s): Chris Washington\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487504502, 978-1487504502\nSynopsis\nRomantic Revelations shows that the nonhuman is fundamental to Romanticisms political responses to climatic catastrophes. Exploring what he calls \""post-apocalyptic Romanticism,\"" Chris Washington intervenes in the critical conversation that has long defined Romanticism as an apocalyptic field. \""Apocalypse\"" means \""the revelation of a perfected world,\"" which sees Romanticisms back-to-nature environmentalism as a return to paradise and peace on earth. Romantic Revelations, however, demonstrates that the destructive climate change events of 1816, \""the year without a summer,\"" changed Romantic thinking about the environment and the end of the world. Their post-apocalyptic visions correlate to the beginning of the Anthropo.