Kevin Hutchings
Biographic Data
| ID | 4000108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Hutchings |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Hutchings |
| SIGNATURE | HUTCHINGS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Northern British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Transatlantic Upper Canada: Portraits in Literature Land and British-Indigenous Relations
Literature emerging from nineteenth-century Upper Canada, born of dramatic cultural and political collisions, reveals much about the colony's history through its contrasting understandings of nature, ecology, deforestation, agricultural development, and land rights. Kevin Hutchings provides an engaging environmental and literary history of Upper Canada focusing on British colonialism, Indigenous activism, and cross-cultural exchange
Teaching Romantic Ecology in Northern Canada
Teaching Romantic Ecology in Northern Canada
Since the publication of Jonathan Bate’s Romantic Ecology in 1991, scholars have increasingly sought to reframe British Romanticism in light of environmental history, creating in the process the field of inquiry known as ‘Green Romanticism’ or ‘Romantic Ecology’. Exploring trends in this field, 1 I have developed an undergraduate seminar at the University of Northern British Columbia that encourages students to consider, from an ecocritical persp…
Romantic Ecologies and Colonial Cultures in the British Atlantic World, 1770-1850
Why did Afro-British writer and abolitionist Ignatius Sancho rail against the abuse of domestic animals in the eighteenth-century London marketplace? Why did Samuel Taylor Coleridge attack the institution of slavery by writing a poem about animal rights? Did William Blake's allegorical depiction of American colonialism as an act of sexual and ecological violence make him an early ecofeminist? When nineteenth-century Ojibwa author George Copway in…
Teaching & Learning Guide for: Ecocriticism in British Romantic Studies
Author's Introduction Because environmental issues are nowadays attracting unprecedented levels of public attention and concern, an ecocritical approach to the study of Romantic literature has the potential to inspire and energize the teaching and learning process. By examining the integral role that Romantic-era thought has played - and continues to play - in the history of ecological science, conservation, environmental ethics, and animal studi…
Ecocriticism in British Romantic Studies
This article considers the theory and practice of ecological literary criticism, or “ecocriticism,” in British Romantic studies. Also known as “Romantic ecology” or “green Romanticism,” Romantic ecocriticism examines the ways in which Romantic writers and thinkers participated in and responded to the history of ecological science, environmental ethics, and environmentalist activism. The article begins by offering a general introduction to ecocrit…
William Blake and “The Nature of Infinity”: Milton 's Environmental Poetics
Nature has no Outline: but Imagination has. Nature has no Tune: but Imagination has! Nature has no Supernatural & dissolves: Imagination is Eternity[.] Nature is Imagination itself. (William Blake
Ecocriticism in British Romantic Studies
This article considers the theory and practice of ecological literary criticism, or “ecocriticism,” in British Romantic studies. Also known as “Romantic ecology” or “green Romanticism,” Romantic ecocriticism examines the ways in which Romantic writers and thinkers participated in and responded to the history of ecological science, environmental ethics, and environmentalist activism. The article begins by offering a general introduction to ecocrit…
Romantic Ecologies and Colonial Cultures in the British Atlantic World, 1770-1850
Why did Afro-British writer and abolitionist Ignatius Sancho rail against the abuse of domestic animals in the eighteenth-century London marketplace? Why did Samuel Taylor Coleridge attack the institution of slavery by writing a poem about animal rights? Did William Blake's allegorical depiction of American colonialism as an act of sexual and ecological violence make him an early ecofeminist? When nineteenth-century Ojibwa author George Copway in…
William Blake and “The Nature of Infinity”: Milton 's Environmental Poetics
Nature has no Outline: but Imagination has. Nature has no Tune: but Imagination has! Nature has no Supernatural & dissolves: Imagination is Eternity[.] Nature is Imagination itself. (William Blake
Ecocriticism in British Romantic Studies
This article considers the theory and practice of ecological literary criticism, or “ecocriticism,” in British Romantic studies. Also known as “Romantic ecology” or “green Romanticism,” Romantic ecocriticism examines the ways in which Romantic writers and thinkers participated in and responded to the history of ecological science, environmental ethics, and environmentalist activism. The article begins by offering a general introduction to ecocrit…
Teaching & Learning Guide for: Ecocriticism in British Romantic Studies
Author's Introduction Because environmental issues are nowadays attracting unprecedented levels of public attention and concern, an ecocritical approach to the study of Romantic literature has the potential to inspire and energize the teaching and learning process. By examining the integral role that Romantic-era thought has played - and continues to play - in the history of ecological science, conservation, environmental ethics, and animal studi…
Romantic Ecologies and Colonial Cultures in the British Atlantic World, 1770-1850
Why did Afro-British writer and abolitionist Ignatius Sancho rail against the abuse of domestic animals in the eighteenth-century London marketplace? Why did Samuel Taylor Coleridge attack the institution of slavery by writing a poem about animal rights? Did William Blake's allegorical depiction of American colonialism as an act of sexual and ecological violence make him an early ecofeminist? When nineteenth-century Ojibwa author George Copway in…
Teaching Romantic Ecology in Northern Canada
Since the publication of Jonathan Bate’s Romantic Ecology in 1991, scholars have increasingly sought to reframe British Romanticism in light of environmental history, creating in the process the field of inquiry known as ‘Green Romanticism’ or ‘Romantic Ecology’. Exploring trends in this field, 1 I have developed an undergraduate seminar at the University of Northern British Columbia that encourages students to consider, from an ecocritical persp…
Teaching Romantic Ecology in Northern Canada
Transatlantic Upper Canada: Portraits in Literature Land and British-Indigenous Relations
Literature emerging from nineteenth-century Upper Canada, born of dramatic cultural and political collisions, reveals much about the colony's history through its contrasting understandings of nature, ecology, deforestation, agricultural development, and land rights. Kevin Hutchings provides an engaging environmental and literary history of Upper Canada focusing on British colonialism, Indigenous activism, and cross-cultural exchange
Romance (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Romanticism (3 works)