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Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of ´Nature´ as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic ´nature´ characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about 21st-century ideas of nature.

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Prologue: Urbanatural Roosting Spring-Vernal Roosting: Romantic Ecocriticism Summer-Estival Roosting: Ecocriticism Fall-Autumnal Roosting: Urbanature Winter-Hibernal Roosting: Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism Epilogue: Urbanatural Roosting

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B. ASHTON NICHOLS is John J. Curley ´60 and Ann Conser Curley ´63 Faculty Chair in the Liberal Arts and Professor of English Language and Literature at Dickinson College, USA. He is the author of The Revolutionary ´I´: Wordsworth and the Politics of Self-Presentation and The Poetics of Epiphany: Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Modern Literary Moment.

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