Acknowledgements
Primary Works and Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Queer Ecology and Its Romantic Roots
Chapter 2: "The Nature of Love and Friendship": Ecotones and Other Fine Lines in Percy Shelley’s Writings on Romantic Friendship
Chapter 3: Percy’s Shelley’s Hermaphroditus: Queer Nature & the Sex Lives of Plants in The Sensitive Plant and The Witch of Atlas
Chapter 4: Communal Ecology & the Queer Domesticities of Mary Shelley’s Maurice and Valperga
Chapter 5: Osculate Wildly: Earth-Kissing & Tree-Kissing in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man and Lodore
Conclusion: Tangled, or the Shelleyan Network
Index
Biography
Colin Carman earned his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2008. A former fellow at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, he has contributed to three book collections, Lacan and Romanticism (2019), Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies (2016) and The Brokeback Book: From Story to Cultural Phenomenon (2011). His articles have appeared in such journals as ISLE, European Romantic Review, GLQ, Studies in Scottish Literature and Horror Studies. A Contributing Writer at The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, he is currently an Instructor of English at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado.
"Carman's account of its queerness makes The Radical Ecology of the Shelleys a really interesting, important contribution to Shelley studies and to Romantic ecocriticism. While the strangeness of the natural world is well-established in Romantic scholarship, the strangeness of human sexuality is less established, and the strength of Carman's book lies in his synthesis of the two."
- Seth T. Reno, Aubern University, Review 19
