Table Of ContentEDINBURGH CRITICAL STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM
ROMANTIC
ENVIRONMENTAL
SENSIBILITY
Nature, Class and Empire
Edited by Ve-Yin Tee
Romantic Environmental Sensibility
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism
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A Feminine Enlightenment: British Women Writers and the Philosophy of Progress,
1759–1820
JoEllen DeLucia
Reinventing Liberty: Nation, Commerce and the Historical Novel from Walpole to
Scott
Fiona Price
The Politics of Romanticism: The Social Contract and Literature
Zoe Beenstock
Radical Romantics: Prophets, Pirates, and the Space Beyond Nation
Talissa J. Ford
Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Blackwood’s
Edinburgh Magazine, 1817–1858
Megan Coyer
Discovering the Footsteps of Time: Geological Travel Writing in Scotland, 1700–1820
Tom Furniss
The Dissolution of Character in Late Romanticism
Jonas Cope
Commemorating Peterloo: Violence, Resilience, and Claim-making during the
Romantic Era
Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt
Dialectics of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786–1831
Gerard Lee McKeever
Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain
Michelle Levy
Scottish Romanticism and Collective Memory in the British Atlantic
Kenneth McNeil
Romantic Periodicals in the Twenty-First Century: Eleven Case Studies from
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Godwin and the Book: Imagining Media, 1783–1836
J. Louise McCray
Thomas De Quincey: Romanticism in Translation
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Romantic Environmental Sensibility: Nature, Class and Empire
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
Notes on Contributors xi
Introduction: Environmentalism, Class and Nature 1
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Part I: Green Imperialism
1. The Environmental Aesthetics of the Chinese Garden 17
Kuri Katsuyama
2. Orientalising the British Class System: Exploring the
‘Chinese’ Landscapes of Sir William Chambers, 1740–1775 34
Laurence Williams
3. Ecogothic Chinatown 60
Li-hsin Hsu
4. Climate Change, Inequality and Romantic Catastrophe 78
David Higgins
5. Governing from the Country House: Landscape and the
Aesthetics of Colonial Rule in India, 1780–1830 93
Rosie Dias
6. On the Prowl: Tigers and the Tea Planter in British India 113
Romita Ray
Part II: Land and Creature Ethics
7. William Cowper and Suburban Environmental Aesthetics 141
Kaz Oishi
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8. Exclusionary Landscapes: Shenstone and the Development
of a Romantic Aesthetics of Enclosure 157
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9. A World of Fire and Drought: Ecosocialism, Improvement
and Apocalypse in James Woodhouse’s Crispinus Scriblerus 172
Adam Bridgen
10. Clifton Walks: Milkmaids Real and Imaginary 195
Yuko Otagaki
11. Blake and the Pastoral- Georgic Tradition 211
Steve Clark
12. Untidying the Landscape: Romantic Poetics, Class and
Non-Human Nature 230
Simon J. White
13. Sensing the Population Debate: Poverty, Ecology and the
Senses in Malthus and his Critics 249
Peter Denney
Afterword: ‘A tear to Nature’s tawny sons is due’:
Alexander Wilson’s The Foresters and Romantic Period
Uprootings 272
Bridget Keegan
Index 280
List of Illustrations
Figure 1 Mei Leng, Bishu Shanzhuang [Mountain Resort to
Escape the Heat], 1713. © The Palace Museum,
Beijing. 130
Figure 2 Giuseppe Castiglione (aka Shining Lang), Xieqiqu
Nanmian [South Façade of the Palace of Delightful
Harmony], 1785. Copper engraving. © The
National Information Study Institute Digital
Archive, Toyo Bunko, Tokyo. 130
Figure 3 Cantonese merchant’s house from William
Chambers, Designs of Chinese Buildings (London:
printed for the author, 1757), plate ix. Engraving by
Edward Rooker. Public domain. 131
Figure 4 William Marlow, View of the Wilderness at Kew,
1763. Watercolour. © Metropolitan Museum of
Art, 25.19.43. 131
Figure 5 William Hodges, View of Warren Hastings’ House
at Alipur and Two Figures in the Foreground,
c. 1781–3. Drawing and watercolour. Yale Center
for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. 132
Figure 6 William Hodges, Natives Drawing Water from a
Pond with Warren Hastings’ House at Alipur in the
Distance, c. 1781. Oil on canvas. Private collection. 132
Figure 7 Richard Wilson, Dinas Bran from Llangollen,
1770–1. Oil on canvas. Yale Center for British Art,
Paul Mellon Collection. 133
Figure 8 William Hodges, View of an Indian Village with
a Man Seated in the Foreground, c. 1781–3. Gray
wash, pen and black ink and graphite on laid paper.
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. 133
Figure 9 James Baillie Fraser, ‘A View of the Botanic Garden
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House and Reach’, from Views of Calcutta and
Its Environs (London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1826).
Coloured aquatint. © The British Library Board,
X644(4). 134
Figure 10 John Young Porter, Palladian Garden House in a
Wooded Park, 1811. Watercolour on paper.
© The British Library Board, WD4417. 134
Figure 11 John Closterman, Maurice Ashley-Cooper and
Antony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury,
c. 1700–1. Oil on canvas. © National Portrait
Gallery, London. 135
Figure 12 Jacket cover illustration, A. R. Ramsden, Assam
Planter: Tea Planting and Hunting in the Assam
Jungle (London: John Gifford, 1945). Author’s
private collection. 135
Figure 13 Frank Nicholls with Tigress shot at Borgang River,
Assam, 1936. Reproduced in Frank Nicholls, Assam
Shikari: A Tea Planter’s Story of Hunting and
High Adventure in the Jungles of North East India
(Auckland: Tonson, 1970), figure 16. Author’s
private collection. 136
Figure 14 Map of The Leasowes from Robert Dodsley’s
‘A Description of the Leasowes’, The Works in
Verse and Prose of William Shenstone, 3 vols
(London: Dodsley, 1764–9), II: facing page 333.
Engraving. Author’s private collection. 136
Figure 15 ‘Wolverhampton from the Penn Road’, from
William West, Picturesque Views in Staffordshire
(Birmingham: Emans, 1834), plate v. Engraving
by T. Radclyffe after Frederick Calvert’s drawing.
© The Bodleian Library. 137
Figure 16 A Survey of the Estate of Sandleford in the County
of Berkshire belonging to Mrs Montagu, 1781.
© Berkshire Record Office, BRO:D/ELM/T19/2/13. 137
