Publication of Romantic Climates
Announcing the publication of Romantic Climates: Literature and Science in an Age of Catastrophe
Just published: Romantic Climates, featuring essays from ERCC directors, lead researchers, and associates
ERCC Co-Director and Lead Researcher Professor Clara Tuite, ERCC Lead Researcher Dr Thomas H. Ford, and ERCC Research Assistant and Associate, Dr Elias Greig have essays in this exciting new volume from Palgrave, edited by Anne Collett and Olivia Murphy. Romantic Climates seeks to uncover how today’s ideas about climate and catastrophe have been formed by the thinking of Romantic poets, novelists and scientists, and how these same ideas might once more be harnessed to assist us in the new climate challenges facing us in the present. The global climate disaster following Mt Tambora’s eruption in 1815 – the ‘Year without a Summer’ – is a starting point from which to reconsider both how the Romantics responded to the changing climates of their day, and to think about how these climatic events shaped the development of Romanticism itself.
