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UNINA9910798172603321 |
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Titolo |
Writing the environment in nineteenth-century American literature : the ecological awareness of early scribes of nature / / edited by Steven Petersheim and Madison P. Jones IV |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (255 p.) |
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Collana |
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Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Environmental literature - United States - History and criticism |
Environmentalism in literature |
Ecology in literature |
Nature in literature |
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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 and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1 Navigating the Interior; 2 John D. Godman and the Creation of the Ramble; 3 Celebrating the "Great, Round,Solid Self" of Earth in Hawthorne's Short Fiction; 4 Learning to Woo Meaning from Apparent Chaos; 5 Shadow and Liminal Space in Typee and Walden; 6 Always Already Sexual; 7 The Swamps of Emily Dickinson; 8 An Ecological Manifest Destiny; 9 John James Audubon; 10 Recovering John Muir's Wild Gardens; Afterword; Works Cited; Index; About the Contributors |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature uncovers the rich variety of environmental writing across the genres in nineteenth-century American literature. Equally relevant to courses in nineteenth-century American literature and scholars of environmental writing, these collected essays offer a representative sampling of the nineteenth century's evolving exploration of the interplay between humans and the natural environment. |
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