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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484703503321

Autore

Newman Lance

Titolo

The Literary Heritage of the Environmental Justice Movement : Landscapes of Revolution in Transatlantic Romanticism / / by Lance Newman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-14572-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 238 pages)

Collana

Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment

Disciplina

810.9003

820.9008

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 19th century

Literature - History and criticism

Communication in the environmental sciences

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Literary History

Environmental Communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter One: Landscapes of Revolution -- Chapter Two: Black Nature -- Chapter Three: The Native Wilderness -- Chapter Four: The Green City -- Chapter Five: The Commons -- Afterword.

Sommario/riassunto

The Literary Heritage of the Environmental Justice Movement showcases environmental literature from writers who fought for women’s rights, native rights, workers’ power, and the abolition of slavery during the Romantic Era. Many Romantic texts take flight from society and enact solitary white male encounters with a feminine nature. However, the symbolic landscapes of Romanticism were often radicalized by writers like Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, William Apess, George Copway, Mary Wollstonecraft, Lydia Maria Child, John Clare, and Henry Thoreau. These authors showed how the oppression of human beings and the exploitation of nature are the twin driving forces of capitalism and colonialism. In addition to spotlighting new kinds of environmental literature, this book also reinterprets familiar texts by figures like



William Blake, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth, and Walt Whitman, and it shows how these household figures were writing in conversation with their radical contemporaries.