This essay examines the origins, development, and future of Romantic ecocriticism. British Romanticism has always been central to discussions of literature and the environment. Here, I offer the most extensive assessment to date of relevant scholarship. I concentrate on book‐length studies of British literature circa 1780–1830, generally excluding books about individual authors. I close by outlining a new agenda for the field. Instead of claiming to reveal the origins of contemporary environmental sensibilities, I argue, Romantic ecocritics should work towards a critical history of regimes of environmental exploitation. Part one of the essay analyses the paths taken and not taken in ecocritical studies of the Romantic period between 1970 and 2000. Part two parses the diversity of Romantic ecocriticism in the early twenty‐first century. Part three argues that Romantic ecocriticism's central concern should be the environmental changes associated with the industrial revolution.

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浪漫生态批评：历史与前景

本文考察了浪漫主义生态批评的起源，发展和未来。英国浪漫主义一直是文学和环境讨论的中心。在这里，我提供了迄今为止有关奖学金的最广泛的评估。我专注于大约1780–1830年间对英国文学进行的书本研究，通常不包括有关个人作者的书。最后，我概述了该领域的新议程。我认为，浪漫主义生态批评家不应声称揭露当代环境敏感性的起源，而应致力于环境开发制度的重要历史。本文的第一部分分析了1970年至2000年浪漫主义时期的生态批评研究所采取的道路和未采取的道路。第二部分分析了二十一世纪初浪漫主义生态批评的多样性。