LEADER 04004nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910973946703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781438432830 010 $a1438432836 010 $a9781441692306 010 $a1441692304 035 $a(CKB)2670000000091750 035 $a(OCoLC)794698972 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10574177 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000468852 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11288344 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468852 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10507775 035 $a(PQKB)11597882 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407315 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse1715 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407315 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10574177 035 $a(OCoLC)719446116 035 $a(DE-B1597)682492 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781438432830 035 $a(Perlego)2673048 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000091750 100 $a20100303d2011 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEnvironmental evasion $ethe literary, critical, and cultural politics of "Nature's Nation" /$fLloyd Willis 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (203 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781438432816 311 08$a143843281X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aHow 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnvironmental literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnvironmental policy in literature 606 $aEnvironmentalism in literature 606 $aHuman ecology in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnvironmental literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnvironmental policy in literature. 615 0$aEnvironmentalism in literature. 615 0$aHuman ecology in literature. 676 $a810.9/36 700 $aWillis$b Lloyd$f1978-$01814382 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973946703321 996 $aEnvironmental evasion$94368265 997 $aUNINA