The idea that human activity threatens nature, and that it is important to protect wild places, dates back to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
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The possibilities of ‘more human than human’ artificial intelligence and the dangers of playing God and are not new – they’re the subjects of one of the world’s first science-fiction novels.
‘Dark Souls’ draws on the literary theme of the ‘last man’ that emerged from the work of French author Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville and those inspired by him.
The doctor-turned-poet died 200 years ago.
Interviews with young hiloni, secular Israeli-Jews, shows many have complicated feelings about Palestinians.
That none of his collections were published in apartheid South Africa testifies to the police state’s censorship.
It’s not just a modern fad – plant-based diets have a long and colourful political past.
Looking nostalgically to the past, a young architect sought to revive the building as a bulwark to the uncertainty of the Industrial Revolution.
Through his art and his travels, 19th-century French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix sought to understand the chaos of an era he called ‘the century of unbelievable things.’
The Romantics - including poets William Blake and William Wordsworth - lived in the 18th century, but their passionate ideas about imagination and nature are still influential today.
The singer had Romantic notions in common with the poet – as well as with William Blake, Mary Shelley, and John Keats.
A volcanic eruption in 1815 triggered a year without a summer – prompting a flowering of nature writing that is all too relevant today.
Better to be deceived in your motivation than not to give to charity at all, or so the 18th-century Romantics would have it.
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Lecturer in Literature, Australian Catholic University
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Lecturer in English, University of Exeter
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Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Leeds
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Professor of Art History, Columbus State University
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Lecturer in English, University of Exeter
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities, Arizona State University
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Senior Lecturer in Conflict Studies and Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Divided Societies, King's College London
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate in History, University of York
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Assistant Professor of Art History, Binghamton University, State University of New York