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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910798172603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-4985-0838-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Collana: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Disciplina: 810.9003
• Soggetti: American literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Environmental literature - United States - History and criticism; Environmentalism in literature; Ecology in literature; Nature in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.