Download or read book Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism written by A. Nichols and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about 21st-century ideas of nature.