Kim Wheatley: John Cowper Powys and the Afterlife of Romanticism, Gebunden

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"This study interprets the British modernist-era novelist Powys as an under-recognized contributor to the cultural transmission of Romanticism. It shows how Powys uniquely combines sense-based nature-worship, the leveling of animate and inanimate, and care for disabled human beings, along with mystical and magical themes, into an ecological vision more capacious than any imagined by the Romantics themselves. The author argues that Powys anticipates and interrogates recent revisionary approaches to the Romantics, particularly eco-critical, thus demanding a fresh kind of environmentalist criticism open to the transcendental and the supernatural"--