This study is concerned with the continuity between the Romantic conception of nature and contemporary Euro-American environmental discourses and literary practices. More specifically, it examines how conceptual and representational paradigms of the Romantic self-nature relationship have modeled ecocritical and ecofeminist thinking as well as nature-related writing by female Anglophone authors of the last three decades.
At first glance, the research interest in Romantic legacies within the collective environmental imagination might seem outdated, for it has shaped the fields of...