Byron's nature: a romantic vision of cultural ecology

This text is a thorough, eco-critical re-evaluation of Lord Byron (1789-1824), claiming him as one of the most important ecological poets in the British Romantic tradition.

Using political ecology, post-humanist theory, new materialism, and ecological science, the book shows that Byron's major poems - 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage', the metaphysical dramas, and 'Don Juan' - are deeply engaged with developing a cultural ecology that could account for the co-creative synergies in human and natural systems, and ground an emancipatory ecopolitics and ecopoetics scaled to address globalized human threats to socio-environmental thriving in the post-Waterloo era.