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Abstract
ABSTRACT The essay discusses the scope of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s transformative rhetoric centred around the body and its potentially revolutionary transformation within the nature/culture landscape, especially through the discourse on vegetarian diet. The topic of the essay is explored through work by Timothy Morton on Shelley’s vegetarianism and also on ‘dark ecology’, trying to juxtapose the concept of diet on the one side, and the idea of ecological awareness on the other side with revolutionary/reformist intentions inscribed in Shelley’s transformative rhetoric of his vegetarian discourse. The main focus of the essay is Shelley’s A Vindication of Natural Diet as part of lengthy notes for Queen Mab (printed in 1813), close read as the part of the whole textual body within which it appears. The topic of the essay is explored through the reception of Shelley’s poetry in the context of ecocriticism trying to address contemporary ecological issues and its reminiscences within Western civilization.
期刊介绍:
The Keats-Shelley Review has been published by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association for almost 100 years. It has a unique identity and broad appeal, embracing Romanticism, English Literature and Anglo-Italian relations. A diverse range of items are published within the Review, including notes, prize-winning essays and contemporary poetry of the highest quality, around a core of peer-reviewed academic articles, essays and reviews. The editor, Professor Nicholas Roe, along with the newly established editorial board, seeks to develop the depth and quality of the contributions, whilst retaining the Review’s distinctive and accessible nature.