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Conservation and Correction: A Study of Ecology and Romantic Conservative Thought.

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Title/Author:	Conservation and Correction: A Study of Ecology and Romantic Conservative Thought./
Author:	Ingles, Jarrod.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	331 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-05A.
Subject:	British & Irish literature. -
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ISBN:	9798460480418

Conservation and Correction: A Study of Ecology and Romantic Conservative Thought.
Ingles, Jarrod.

Conservation and Correction: A Study of Ecology and Romantic Conservative Thought. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 331 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Rochester, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

My dissertation aims to contribute to the large body of scholarship surrounding the works of Edmund Burke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth. It also aims to demonstrate how conservatism, emotion, and environmentalism intersect in powerful ways in each of these writers. Through this ecocritical examination of conservative texts, the dissertation shows how early-nineteenth conservatism offers a variety of principles and frameworks for approaching environmental issues today. It attends, first of all, to Edmund Burke's. While a few critics have recognized that Burke's writings contain ideas that support environmental values, these critics have overlooked the critical connection between Burke's emphasis on emotions and feeling and his proto-environmental political theories such as the importance of complexity, intergenerational imagination, local attachment, gradual/organic change, and prejudice. I will argue that by understanding the place of emotions in Burke's ideas about society the full relevance of his ideas for environmentalism can be appreciated. The dissertation then turns to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. While many critics have done an excellent job securing Coleridge a place as an important environmental thinker, and a few have convincingly argued for the importance of emotion in Coleridge's works, these scholars have not substantially examined the connection between ecology, the emotions, and Coleridge's political ideas. Moreover, no work has been published that examines those ideas in Church and State. This chapter aims to fill those gaps by arguing that in Church and State, Coleridge advocates a symbiotic constitutional structure guided by ecological principles of balance, stewardship, organic unity, and sustainability that critiques the atomizing forces of modernity. The final two chapters of the dissertation address William Wordsworth. Critics have long recognized Wordsworth as poet of nature and feeling, but his later, conservative poetry is still largely unexamined. This chapter focuses on his oft-ignored, conservative epic poem The Excursion. I argue that it is in this poem and not in his earlier poetry that Wordsworth presents his most radical ecological ideas. In short, I argue that The Excursion makes the case for a theory of ecological judgment that demands interminglings, conversations, and negotiations among the living, the dead, and the natural world. This ecological judgment is only possible from a position of humility about the capabilities of our own reason and calls readers to situate themselves imaginatively in the midst of the wildly multiplicitous. Seeing the world with ecological judgment replaces individual despair with communal joy through a recognition of the life shared by all living and non-living things. As such, Wordsworth's theory of ecological judgment is conservative in its powerful resistance to the atomizing force of modernity's political and commercial liberalism. The fourth and final chapter builds on the argument from chapter three by arguing that Wordsworth is a profoundly ecological thinker whose ideas about the way we should inhabit the world prefigured the contemporary land ethic movement in environmentalism associated with writers like Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey, and Wendell Berry. The theory of ecological judgement that emerges from a careful analysis of The Excursion encourages all readers to thoughtfully inhabit the world around them. Furthermore, I propose that Wordsworth's ideas, not only in his poetry but also in his gardening and travel writings, place him among those writers who have incorporated their ecological theories into their practical ideas about design, landscaping, transportation development, and economics. This makes Wordsworth a figure of considerable contemporary relevance because those ideas inform both the way that we as individuals choose to live our daily lives and the way that we as members of complex communities strive to organize our society. All four chapters conclude with thoughts about the relevance of each author's ideas for contemporary environmental thought.

ISBN: 9798460480418Subjects--Topical Terms:

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British & Irish literature.
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Burke, Edmund

Conservation and Correction: A Study of Ecology and Romantic Conservative Thought.
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