Books by Timothy (University of Colorado Boulder) Morton

This 2000 book focuses on the significance of spice, and the spice trade, in Romantic literature, shedding light on the impact of the growing consumerism and capitalist ideology. Timothy Morton surveys literary, political, medical, travel, trade and philosophical literature, offering new readings of Keats, Shelley and Southey among many others.

This book brings together the themes of diet, consumption, the body, and human relationships with the natural world, in a highly original study of the poet Shelley, a campaigning vegetarian and proto-ecological thinker. Morton offers an illuminatingly broad context for his views in eighteenth-century social and political thought concerning the place of humans in nature, culture, and society.