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Babcock Matthew James |
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Titolo |
Private fire [[electronic resource] ] : Robert Francis's ecopoetry and prose / / Matthew James Babcock |
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Newark, : University of Delaware Press, c2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ecology in literature |
Ecocriticism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-212) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- The influence of Dickinson and Frost -- Sex, gender, and the rural erotic -- Fiction and non-fiction -- Ecospirituality and ecopolitics -- Economy, place, and space -- The experiemental environmental -- Valhalla -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Matthew J. Babcock's Private Fire: Robert Francis's Ecopoetry and Prose presents an introduction to and analysis of nearly six decades of nature-centered literature produced by one of America's most intriguing but tragically obscure writers. Private Fire tracks the steady trajectory of Francis's life and career, situates him among more visible twentieth-century writers, and presents a broad and eclectic explication of his contribution to American environmental literature. Specifically, readers will investigate the influence Dickinson and Frost exerted on Francis, Francis's traditional and expe |
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