02790oam 2200673I 450 991078912030332120230808211443.01-317-14641-71-317-14640-91-315-57864-61-4094-0158-810.4324/9781315578644 (CKB)3710000000087006(EBL)1610026(SSID)ssj0001108113(PQKBManifestationID)12482318(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001108113(PQKBWorkID)11086086(PQKB)10157672(MiAaPQ)EBC1610026(MiAaPQ)EBC5293964(Au-PeEL)EBL1610026(CaPaEBR)ebr10834474(CaONFJC)MIL919050(OCoLC)870245564(OCoLC)952728741(Au-PeEL)EBL5293964(CaONFJC)MIL586245(OCoLC)874156554(EXLCZ)99371000000008700620180706e20162014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEcocriticism and the idea of culture biology and the bildungsroman /Helena FederLondon ;New York :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (188 p.)First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing.1-4094-0157-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Biology and the Idea of Culture; 2 Candide and the Dialectic of Enlightenment; 3 Ecocriticism and the Production of Monstrosity in Frankenstein; 4 Placing Modernity in Orlando; 5 Consuming Culture in A Small Place and Among Flowers; 6 Conclusion: Dehumanization, Animality, and the Bildungsroman; Bibliography; IndexArguing that the Bildungsroman is humanist culture's own origin story, Feder draws on the work of biologists in her examination of works by Voltaire, Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf and Jamaica Kincaid. She dramatizes Western culture's own awareness of the instability of the binary of nature and culture, making a timely intervention in the ongoing culture-nature debate, bridging the gap between cultural theory and biologically grounded research.BildungsromansHistory and criticismEcology in literatureNature in literatureBildungsromansHistory and criticism.Ecology in literature.Nature in literature.809.3/9353Feder Helena.1551237MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789120303321Ecocriticism and the idea of culture3810649UNINA