Politics of Nature

NICHOLAS ROE is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His books include Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years, John Keats and the Culture of Dissent, and, as editor Keats and History and Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Sciences of Life.

• List of Illustrations Abbreviations A Note on Texts Preface Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE 'Unremembered Kindness': George Dyer and the Poets Robert Southey, Pantisocracy, and the Poet's Myth Living Without God in the World: Lamb, Coleridge, Wordsworth PART TWO John Thelwall's Essay, Towards a Definition of Animal Vitality The Prison Diary of John Augustus Bonney PART THREE Wordsworth's Secrecy: Gorsas and 'The Philanthropist' The Politics of the Wye Valley: Re-Placing 'Tintern Abbey' 'Adam of a New World': Lyrical Ballads and The Prelude Epilogue: The Noise of the Sea Appendix 1: Robert Southey and the Origin of Pantisocracy Appendix 2: A Checklist of Persons in Bonney's Diary Notes Bibliography Index

'Nicholas Roe, in a nuanced and thoughtful engagement with the ideas of New Historicism, shows how the most interesting meanings of Romantic texts can be constructed by paying particular attention to what is on the surface rather than what might be concealed in depths that have to be made to speak...Few books deserve a second edition, but Nicholas Roe's The Politics of Nature is one of them.' - Michael Scrivener, Wayne State University 'Few books deserve a second edition, but Nichoas Roe's The Politics of Nature is one of them...The second edition of this work remind us of how persuasive and strongly argued The Politics of Nature is...The strength of Roe's study is engaging not ghosts and lacunae but public actions and texts that seem to mean what they say...bring[s] into being interesting readings of important works by remaining within the realm of the visible.' - Michael Scrivener, Wayne State University 'In this new, expanded edition, Roe makes a convincing case for the close relationship between revolutionary science and politics in romanticism.' - P D Smith, The Guardian