Romantic climates : literature and science in an age of catastrophe / Anne Collett, Olivia Murphy, editors.

Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Dialogue: Weaving a Web of Awareness; Chapter 1: Romantic Climates: A Change in the Weather; Chapter 2: Domesticating Climate: Scale and the Meteorology of Luke Howard; Chapter 3: Wordsworth in the Tropics of Cumbria; Chapter 4: Keats and the Poetics of Climate Change, 1816 and Beyond; Chapter 5: 'Out of Season': The Narrative Ecology of Persuasion; Austen and the Year Without a Summer; The Ecology of Persuasion; Meaning to Have Spring Again; Out of Season

Chapter 6: 'This Thing of Darkness': Reading Atmospheric Disturbance in Matthew Lewis's Journal of a West India ProprietorDistant Relations; An Inheritance; The Text; Conclusion; Chapter 7: When the Earth Moves; Introduction; Teleconnections; In the Smoky Distance; Spectral Projections; Moving Granite; A Heart-Quake; Conclusion; Chapter 8: Utopia or Dystopia? The Romantics in Switzerland, 1816; Chapter 9: Metaphor and the Unprecedented: Byron's 'Darkness' and Responding to Ecological Disaster; Chapter 10: Orlando's Romantic Climate Change; Chapter 11: Afterword: Ghosts of 1816

Climate Shock: The Three Stages1816 Redivivus: Romantic Teleconnections; Works Cited; Index