A highly original study of Shelley's thought in relation to diet, consumption, the body, nature, and culture.

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. They have collaborated with Björk, Laurie Anderson, Jennifer Walshe, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Justin Guariglia, Olafur Eliasson, and Pharrell Williams. Morton co-wrote and appears in Living in the Future's Past, a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges. They are the author of the libretto for the opera Time Time Time by Jennifer Walshe. They are the author of Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018), Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (Verso, 2017), Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), eight other books and 250 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. Morton's work has been translated into 10 languages. In 2014, Morton gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory. They blog regularly at Ecology Without Nature.

Acknowledgements; Introduction: prescriptions; 1. The rights of brutes; 2. The purer nutriment: diet and Shelley's biographies; 3. In the face: the poetics of the natural diet; 4. Apollo in the jungle: healthy morals and the body beautiful; 5. Intemperate figures: refining culture; 6. Sustaining natures: Shelley and ecocriticism; Notes; Bibliography; Index.