DEPICTION OF ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS IN BRITISH ROMANTICISM
Abstract
Literary criticism that examines the ways in which Romantic writers and thinkers participated in and responded to the history of ecological science, environmental ethics, and environmentalist activism is known as “Romantic ecology” or “green Romanticism”.
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