Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature: The Enchanted Garden

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
Credits
Author biographies
Introduction: romanticism, capitalism, and ecology
	Romanticism as a worldview
	Romanticism versus capitalism
	Capitalism versus nature
	Romanticism and nature: The origins
	Romanticism and environmental humanities
	Recent work on romanticism and ecology
	Notes
	Works Cited
1. William Bartram’s Travels and romantic environmentalism
	The North American context
	The worldview of William Bartram
	Bartram’s Travels
	The drawings
	Notes
	Works Cited
2. Thomas Cole, painter-prophet of ecological disaster
	The social context of Cole’s art
	Cole’s written work
	The modern Empire: corruption, war, desolation (paintings 3, 4, 5)
	Notes
	Works Cited
3. William Morris’s romantic ecological utopia
	Morris as craftsman
	The romances
	Essays and talks
	News from Nowhere
	Morris’s influence
	Notes
	Works Cited
4. Walter Benjamin against the “murder” of nature
	Romantic Zivilisationskritik and the discovery of Marxism
(1913–1930)
	Marxism against the murder of nature (1935–1939)
	The revolution is the emergency brake
	Notes
	Works Cited
5. Raymond Williams: romantic culture and socialist ecology
	Culture and Society
	The Country and the City
	Towards socialism
	The romantic tradition and nature
	Against the “endless drive for expansion”
	For a socialist ecology
	“Walking Backwards into the Future”
	Notes
	Works Cited
6. Naomi Klein, twenty-first century climate warrior
	No Logo and The Shock Doctrine: “branding” the present and
“blanking” the past
	This Changes Everything: Naomi Klein as climate warrior
	Ancestral traditions and indigenous struggles
	Time to put on the brakes
	No is Not Enough: utopia and memory
	Notes
	Works Cited
Conclusion
	Notes
Index