Taking into account recent developments in historical and ecological
criticism, and incorporating fresh research into poetry and politics in
the 1790s, the second edition of The Politics of Nature enlarges and
updates Nicholas Roe's acclaimed study of Romanticism. Hitherto marginal
figures are restored to prominence, and there is new material on William
Wordsworth's radical years. The book includes the full text of John
Thelwall's Essay on Animal Vitality with commentary, exploring how ideas
of nature, revolution and radical science entwined.