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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151603303321

Titolo

Transatlantic literary ecologies : nature and culture in the nineteenth-century Anglophone Atlantic world / / edited by Kevin Hutchings and John Miller ; with an afterword by James C. McKusick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-59835-3

1-317-08727-5

1-317-08728-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Collana

Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies

Altri autori (Persone)

HutchingsKevin <1960-> (Kevin Douglas)

MillerJohn <1973->

Disciplina

810.9/003

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Environmental literature - United States - History and criticism

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The poetry and agricultural politics of transatlantic radicalism, 1789-93 : Joel Barlow's The hasty pudding / Michael Demson -- 2. Stewardship and plenitude : William Bartram, the Lake poets, and romantic ecology / David Higgins -- 3. Transatlantic extinctions and the "vanishing American" / Kevin Hutchings -- 4. Reading the "book of nature": Thomas Cole and the British romantics / Samantha C. Harvey -- 5. The ornithographies of John Clare and Henry David Thoreau / Markus Poetzsch -- 6. (Un)settling desires : erotics and ecologies in Nathaniel Hawthorne's transatlantic romances / Daniel Hannah -- 7. The sublime and the dying : landscape aesthetics and animal suffering in The boy's own fur trade / John Miller -- 8. John Muir, John Ruskin and the anthropocene : modern painters IV and studies in the Sierra / Terry Gifford -- 9. Mark Twain's The innocents abroad, transatlantic travel writing, and the desolation of the Holy Land / Joshua Mabie -- 10. "No region for tourists and women" : Isabella Bird, local ecology and



the transatlantic sphere / Amanda Adams -- 11. "Enchased and lettered": Thomas Hardy's American readers and The nature of place / Adrian Tait.