{"title":"Rewilding with Romanticism","authors":"Tobias Menely","doi":"10.1353/srm.2023.0001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Drawing on site visits around Helpston and in the Lake District, this article examines rewilding projects inspired by John Clare and William Wordsworth. It considers the contested meaning of \"wildness\" in a Romantic period defined by enclosure and intensified agricultural production, and it shows how ecocritical fieldwork—walking, observing, talking, and even protesting—can supplement interpretive practice, illuminating the ways Romantic legacies are today informing reparative approaches to conservation.","PeriodicalId":44848,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2023.0001","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract:Drawing on site visits around Helpston and in the Lake District, this article examines rewilding projects inspired by John Clare and William Wordsworth. It considers the contested meaning of "wildness" in a Romantic period defined by enclosure and intensified agricultural production, and it shows how ecocritical fieldwork—walking, observing, talking, and even protesting—can supplement interpretive practice, illuminating the ways Romantic legacies are today informing reparative approaches to conservation.
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Studies in Romanticism was founded in 1961 by David Bonnell Green at a time when it was still possible to wonder whether "romanticism" was a term worth theorizing (as Morse Peckham deliberated in the first essay of the first number). It seemed that it was, and, ever since, SiR (as it is known to abbreviation) has flourished under a fine succession of editors: Edwin Silverman, W. H. Stevenson, Charles Stone III, Michael Cooke, Morton Palet, and (continuously since 1978) David Wagenknecht. There are other fine journals in which scholars of romanticism feel it necessary to appear - and over the years there are a few important scholars of the period who have not been represented there by important work.