Sensing the Population Debate: Poverty, Ecology and the Senses in Malthus and his Critics
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Tee, Ve-Yin
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In his 1807 critique of An Essay on the Principle of Population, William Hazlitt compared the conclusions of its author, Thomas Robert Malthus, to the observations of city-dwellers who liked to ramble through the country in pursuit of a reinvigorating experience of nature. Actually, Malthus’s Essay deliberately eschewed the rural escapism that influenced picturesque tourists and readers of pastoral poetry.
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Romantic Environmental Sensibility: Nature, Class and Empire
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Denney, P, Sensing the Population Debate: Poverty, Ecology and the Senses in Malthus and his Critics, Romantic Environmental Sensibility: Nature, Class and Empire, 2022, pp. 249-271