ENG383H1 Lecture Notes - The Deserted Village
Document Summary
Nature"s positive but then is disrupted and intruded on by market consumption. In romantic era works, eco-critics tended to see a world-view that paralleled an environmental view from the 20th century: there has been a cost to over valuing economics. An idea that to help humanity get back on track with nature, we need to examine where we are. There is always a desire to discover where we want wrong: scholars and designers try to pinpoint all the locations. The creation of empires: anytime we pick those points we are betraying our values. A shift from a feudal and collective system of social and economic relations to an individual and capitalist system. Represent the individual in starkly different ways. It"s very much a poem in the didactic: a poem that is trying to teach and instruct. A period of agricultural revolution: radical changes going on in the english landscape fueling a consciousness and sensitivity to the environment.
