Charles Kingsley
From Being Green to Green Being
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8105976 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hamlin Hamlin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 255-255 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-5222 • E-ISSN: 1527-2052 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/victorianstudies.54.2.255 |
| OpenAlex | W2102686450 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
This essay argues that the diverse strands of Charles Kingsley's work—as nature writer, clergyman, and novelist, among others—can be united through an ecocritical approach that underscores his literary projection of a green identity. By conceiving of the imagination as situated between what he saw as the purely passive work of scholarship or art and the active engagement of physical labor, Kingsley forged an answer to a problem that continues to engage ecocritics: What autonomy, if any, does the imagination have when humanity is understood as the product of evolution? In rejecting easy dualisms and recognizing the co-dependence of imagination and fact, of art, science, and morality, Kingsley demands that we confront our partiality and fragility as biotic beings
Aesthetics · Alienation · Autonomy · Epistemology · Humanity · Identity (music · Morality · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Scholarship · Situated · Sociology · Theology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |