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This book traces the aesthetic of wonder from the romantic period through contemporary philosophy and literature, arguing for its relevance to ecological consciousness. Most ecocritical scholarship tends to overshadow discussions of wonder with the sublime, failing to treat these two aesthetic categories as distinct. As a result, contemporary scholarship has conflated wonder and the sublime and ultimately lost the nuances that these two concepts conjure for readers and thinkers. Economides illuminates important differences between these aesthetics, particularly their negotiation ofissues relevant to gender-based and environmental politics. In turn, readers can utilize the concept of wonder as an open-ended, non-violent framework in contrast to the ethos of domination that often surrounds the sublime.

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Introduction

Economides Louise

1-34

Wonder and romantic ecology

Economides Louise

35-74

Romanticism, scientific wonders, and the technological sublime

Economides Louise

75-107

The environmental sublime and ecological melancholy

Economides Louise

109-152

Wonder and technē in an age of ecological risk

Economides Louise

153-192