&quote;Am not I / A fly like thee?&quote;

Ecocriticism – a firm branch of literary criticism by now – first emerged back in the 1980s, when literary scholars started to reassess Romantic texts in terms of their ecological merit. Based on the assumption that humanity''s anthropocentric conceptions of their relationship to the nonhuman world are largely responsible for today''s environmental crisis, "Green Romanticism" primarily focused on ...