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This study reinterprets Lord Byron’s Manfred (1817) through three theoretical lenses: Timothy Morton’s dark ecology and hyperobjects, Jane Bennett’s vibrant matter and actant, and Val Plumwood’s critique of dualism. Where Romantic ecocriticism has largely centered on harmonious visions of nature, the nature represented in Manfred exceeds human perception and control, actively shaping the narrative as a nonhuman reality. The spirits and Astarte, this study argues, are independent agents irreducible to Manfred’s psychological projections; his ontological crisis is thus analyzed as a form of dualistic alienation in which the exclusion of nature results in the loss of the self. The play’s ecological imagination is further situated within the historical experience of the 1815 Tambora eruption, the ensuing “Year Without a Summer,” and Byron’s Alpine Journal. Drawing these strands together, the study proposes the concept of “antagonistic symbiosis” to describe a relation in which the human and the nonhuman can neither part from nor be reconciled with one another. Rather than an ideal of reconciliation, Manfred dramatizes the persistence of unresolved tension and dependency, offering a literary resource for reflecting on the ecological realities of the Anthropocene.

목차

I. 서론: 낭만주의 생태비평의 새로운 지평
II. 『맨프레드』의 자연 표상과 어둠의 생태학
III. 비인간 행위성과 갈등적 공생
1. 액턴트로서의 정령들: 비인간 행위성과 서사의 재구성
2. 이중적 소외와 갈등적 공생
IV. 탐보라 이후의 자연: 『맨프레드』의 인류세적 감각
V. 결론
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저자

• 박경희 [ Park, Kyunghee | 강원대학교 ]

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간행물

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810