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In Common Things explores the implacable agency of common substances in the life and literature of the Romantic period.

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Introduction: In Common Things 1. “The Bones of the World”: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Social Geology 2. “Broken Arbour”: The Ruined Cottage and Deforestation 3. “Strange Look’d it There!”: The Paradox of the Palm in the Poetry of Felicia Hemans 4. Preserver and Destroyer: Salt in The History of Mary Prince 5. “Lin’d with Moss”: John Clare’s Rhizomatic Poetics

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      Publisher: University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: 07/04/2022
      ISBN13: 9781487543488, 978-1487543488
      ISBN10: 1487543484
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      Nature and the natural world: general interest

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In Common Things explores the implacable agency of common substances in the life and literature of the Romantic period.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: In Common Things 1. “The Bones of the World”: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Social Geology 2. “Broken Arbour”: The Ruined Cottage and Deforestation 3. “Strange Look’d it There!”: The Paradox of the Palm in the Poetry of Felicia Hemans 4. Preserver and Destroyer: Salt in The History of Mary Prince 5. “Lin’d with Moss”: John Clare’s Rhizomatic Poetics

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