04004nam 2200721Ia 450 991097394670332120200520144314.09781438432830143843283697814416923061441692304(CKB)2670000000091750(OCoLC)794698972(CaPaEBR)ebrary10574177(SSID)ssj0000468852(PQKBManifestationID)11288344(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468852(PQKBWorkID)10507775(PQKB)11597882(MiAaPQ)EBC3407315(MdBmJHUP)muse1715(Au-PeEL)EBL3407315(CaPaEBR)ebr10574177(OCoLC)719446116(DE-B1597)682492(DE-B1597)9781438432830(Perlego)2673048(EXLCZ)99267000000009175020100303d2011 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrEnvironmental evasion the literary, critical, and cultural politics of "Nature's Nation" /Lloyd Willis1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20111 online resource (203 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781438432816 143843281X Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: American literature and environmental politics. Chapter 1: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and the formation of American literature's core environmental values -- Chapter 2: James Fenimore Cooper, canon formation, and American literature's erasure of environmental anxiety -- Chapter 3: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the American canon's erasure of material nature -- Chapter 4: Willa Cather and John Steinbeck, environmental schizophrenia and monstrous ecology -- Chapter 5: Zora Neale Hurston, the power of Harlem, and the promise of Florida -- Afterword: Ernest Hemingway, and American literature's legacy of environmental disengagement.How do we reconcile the abstract reverence for the natural world central to American literary history, beginning with Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature," with over a century and a half of widespread environmental destruction? Environmental Evasion examines the environmental implications of literary and cultural productions by writers from James Femimore Cooper and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston. Lloyd Willis provocatively argues that the environmentalist outlooks by Cooper and Longfellow were eclipsed by Ralph Waldo Emerson's abstract, imperialist vision of nature. He demonstrates how many 20th century American writers have taken the Emersonian approach, participating in a silent but extremely powerful form of evasive environmental politics in the ways in which they write about the natural world. Attentive to the inherent political dimensions of all texts, Environmental Evasion insists on the relevance of environmental history and politics to New Americanist approaches to the literary canon.American literatureHistory and criticismEnvironmental literatureHistory and criticismEnvironmental policy in literatureEnvironmentalism in literatureHuman ecology in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Environmental literatureHistory and criticism.Environmental policy in literature.Environmentalism in literature.Human ecology in literature.810.9/36Willis Lloyd1978-1814382MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910973946703321Environmental evasion4368265UNINA