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Ashton Nichols

Philosophy

#2831

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#4717

Historical Rank

#963

USA Rank

Logic

#10316

World Rank

#13235

Historical Rank

#1938

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Ashton Nichols's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Brooks Ashton Nichols is the Walter E. Beach ’56 Distinguished Chair Emeritus in Sustainable Studies and Professor of English Language and Literature Emeritus at Dickinson College. His interests are in literature, contemporary ecocriticism, Romanticism, and nature writing. Nichols taught courses in Romanticism, 19th century literature, literature and the environment, and nature writing. He is especially well-known for his study of James Joyce's literary concept of "epiphany," his definition of Romantic natural histories, and his coinage of the phrase "Urbanatural roosting," an idea which links urban with natural modes of existence and argues for ways of living more lightly on the earth, for inhabiting our planet the way animals do, by altering our environments without harming those same environments.

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The poetics of epiphany : nineteenth-century origins of the modern literary "moment" (1989) (27)
Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting (2011) (16)
Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism (2011) (11)
The Revolutionary 'I': Wordsworth and the Politics of Self-Presentation (1998) (8)
Roaring alligators and burning tygers: Poetry and science from William Bartram to Charles Darwin. (2005) (6)
Looking Backward, Looking Forward: MLA Members Speak (2000) (6)
THE REVOLUTIONARY (2020) (5)
Thoreau and urbanature: from Walden to ecocriticism (2009) (4)
The Anxiety of Species: Toward a Romantic Natural History (1997) (4)
Browning's Modernism: The Infinite Moment as Epiphany (1983) (2)
Ecocritical and Environmental Approaches: Teaching Victorian Poets and Novelists in the Age of the Internet (2017) (1)
Dialogical Theology as Politics in Mongo Beti , Werewere Liking (2010) (1)
“The Drowned Man of Esthwaite” (1985) (1)
Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History. Edited by Noah Heringman.Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media. Edited by Louise Henson, Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth, and Jonathan R. Topham. (2005) (1)
Silencing the Other: The Discourse of Domination in Nineteenth-Century Exploration Narratives (1989) (1)
“Urbanatural Roosting” in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney (2016) (1)
Dialogizing Dorothy: Voicing the Feminine as Spousal Sister in The Prelude (1998) (0)
Joycezseasidegirls: Gretta, Bertha, Molly and Nora-All from Gibralway? (2010) (0)
Walking with Dr. Johnson and Wordsworth (2018) (0)
Celebration and Longing: Robert Browning and the Nonhuman World (2017) (0)
Colonizing Consciousness: Culture as Identity in Wordsworth’s Prelude and Walcott’s Another Life (1998) (0)
Emerson's Sublime Science. Eric Wilson. (1999) (0)
Encyclopaedic Visions: Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture. Richard Yeo.Books and the Sciences in History. Edited by Marina Frasca-Spada and Nick Jardine. (2001) (0)
Towards "Spots of Time": "Visionary Dreariness" in "An Evening Walk" (1983) (0)
Electronic Resources for Nineteenth-Century Studies: A Provisional Appraisal (1997) (0)
Literature and Science, 1660-1834, Part 2, Volume 5, Fauna, Volume 6, Astronomy, Volume 7, Natural Philosophy, Volume 8, Chemistry. Edited by Judith Hawley, David Clifford, Rob Iliffe, and Brian Dolan. (2004) (0)
A Realistic Wittgenstein (2012) (0)
Romantic natural histories : selected texts with introduction (2004) (0)
Abstracts from the 7th international forum on mood and anxiety disorders (2007) (0)
Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism. Kate Rigby. (2006) (0)
Assateague Island Memories (2012) (0)
Coleridge as Catalyst to Autobiography: the Wordsworthian Self as Therapeutic Gift, 1804–5 (1998) (0)
Henry David Builds His Hut (2017) (0)
Sounds into Speech: the Two-Part Prelude of 1799 as Dialogic Dramatic Monologue (1998) (0)
A Living Calendar (2005) (0)
Reviews (2006) (0)
Dialogical Theology as Politics in Mongo Beti, Wewere Liking, and Chinua Achebe (2010) (0)
Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists: An Ecocritical Study, 1789-1912. Dewey W. Hall. (2015) (0)
A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation. Nancy Easterlin. (2012) (0)
Alan Bewell. Natures in Translation: Romanticism and Colonial Natural History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. Pp. 393. $60.00 (cloth). (2017) (0)
"Look Who's Talking": Dialogic Learning in the Undergraduate Classroom. (1991) (0)
CHASE PIELAK. Memorializing Animals during the Romantic Period. (2016) (0)
Silencing the (Other) Self: Wordsworth as ‘Wordsworth!’ in ‘There was a boy’ (1998) (0)
Literature and Science, 1660-1834, Part 1, Volume 3, Earthly Powers, Volume 4, Flora. Edited by Judith Hawley, Richard Hamblyn, and Charlotte Grant. (2003) (0)
Review: Thoreauvian Modernities: Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon (2014) (0)
Humanities Scholarship and Teaching in Hyperspace (2006) (0)
Killing a Rattlesnake (2001) (0)
Clandestine Marriage: Botany & Romantic Culture; Worm Work: Recasting Romanticism (2014) (0)
Beyond Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism (2012) (0)
Review: Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture by Terry G. Jordan (1978) (0)
The Politics of Self-Presentation: Wordsworth as Revolutionary Actor in a Literary Drama (1998) (0)
Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment; Chaos and Cosmos: Literary Roots of Modern Ecology in the British Nineteenth Century (2016) (0)
British Romanticism and the Science of Mind. Alan Richardson. (2002) (0)
Wordsworth as Environmental "Nature" Writer (2013) (0)
A Renaissance Enlightenment Man (2006) (0)
Fostered by Fear: Affect and Environment in Romantic Nature Writing (2016) (0)

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