Open AccessReading Italian Hours in the Anthropocene
Author(s) -
Eric Morel
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
viatica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2275-0827
DOI - 10.52497/viatica1189
Subject(s) - anthropocene , humanities , scholarship , context (archaeology) , reading (process) , ecotourism , environmental ethics , art , history , ethnology , philosophy , archaeology , political science , tourism , law
This essay situates Henry James’s Italian Hours within recent conversations about Anthropocene ecotourism. Although ecotourism aspires to educate its participants, scholars have struggled to define and assess the education it occasions. This article opens by offering Henry James’s reflections on reading John Ruskin in Italy to make an environmental humanities contribution to that scholarship. Thereafter, the article considers the Anthropocene ecotourism context in the other direction, drawing from “Siena Early and Late” to develop emergent work in econarratology.