Beatrix Potter's Mycological Aesthetics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11896809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erica Kanesaka Kalnay (0000-0002-3867-513X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 160-184 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Oxford Literary Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-1498 • E-ISSN: 1757-1634 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/olr.2019.0277 |
| OpenAlex | W2991397525 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay argues that Beatrix Potter's work on mushrooms reveals the ways in which the Western ecological imaginary has responded to Victorian and Edwardian notions of childhood animism. It finds Potter's ‘mycological aesthetics’, or the interplay between attention and imagination that characterises her work, lingering in present-day ecocritical thinking that aims to dismantle the binary constructs underwriting human exceptionalism
Aesthetics · American exceptionalism · Animism · Art · Fantasy · Literature · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Imaginary · Work (physics · Anthropology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Engineering · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Law · Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |