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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814459703321

Titolo

The greening of literary scholarship [[electronic resource] ] : literature, theory, and the environment / / edited by Steven Rosendale ; foreword by Scott Slovic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, IA, : University of Iowa Press, c2002

ISBN

1-58729-414-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RosendaleSteven

Disciplina

809/.93355

Soggetti

Ecocriticism

Literature, Modern - History and criticism - Theory, etc

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 (p. [251]-267) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: I. REMAPPING LITERARY HISTORIES -- i. Saving All the Pieces:  The Place of Textual Editing in Ecocriticism 3  Michael P Branch -- 2. Le Page du Pratz's Fabulous Journey of Discovery:  Learning about Nature Writing from a Colonial Promotional Narrative 26  Gordon Sayre -- 3. Ecocriticism, New Historicism, and Romantic Apostrophe 42  Helena Feder -- 4. In Search of Left Ecology's Usable Past:  The Jungle, Social Change, and the Class Character of  Environmental Impairment 59  Steven Rosendale -- 5. Rivers, Journeys, and the Construction of Place in  Nineteenth-Century English Literature 77  Alison Byerly -- II. EXPANDING THE SUBJECT IN ECOCRITICISM -- 6. Locating the Uranium Mine: Place, Multiethnicity, and Environmental Justice in  Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony 97 James Tarter -- 7. Landscape in Drag:  The Paradox of Feminine Space in Susan Warer's The Wide, Wide World ini -- Andrea Blair -- 8. "Space Is a Frame We Map Ourselves In":  The Feminist Geographies of Susan Howe's Frame Structures 131 Eleanor Hersey -- 9. Of Whales and Men:  The Dynamics of Cormac McCarthy's Environmental Imagination 149 James D. Lilley -- 10. Articulating the Cyborg:  An Impure Model for Environmental Revolution 165 Louis H. Palmer III -- III. RETHINKING REPRESENTATION AND THE SUBLIME -- 11. Surveying the Sublime:  Literary Cartographers and the Spirit of Place 181 Rick Van Noy -- 12. "Mont



Blanc":  Shelley's Sublime Allegory of the Real 207 Aaron Dunckel -- 13. Vicarious Edification:  Radcliffe and the Sublime 224  James Kirwan.

Sommario/riassunto

A collection of thirteen original essays by leaders in the emerging field of ecocriticism, The Greening of Literary Scholarship is devoted to exploring new and previously neglected literatures, theories, and methods in environmental-literary scholarship.