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Chaos and Cosmos:

Literary Roots of Modern Ecology in the British Nineteenth Century
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Traces an epistemological legacy from Romantic and Victorian ecological literature to modern scientific ecology. Investigates two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that continue to be debated today.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Beyond the Dichotomy

Part 1 Chaos

Romantic Chaos: Natural Patterns Disturbed

Victorian Chaos: Industrial Disruptions

Today’s Science Nonfiction

Part 2 Microcosm

Romantic Microcosms: Brain Worlds

Victorian Microcosms: Domestic Systems

Today’s Scientific Modeling

Part 3 Keats and Ecology: A Case Study

The Literary Empiricist

Hyperion: The Chaos of Tartarus

Microcosmic Odes

Epilogue

Works Consulted


“A thoughtful addition to an ecocritical idiom characterized by shuttling between current concerns and past resources.”

—Daniel Williams, Victorian Literature and Culture

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