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Titolo: | 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 |
Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015 |
©2015 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
Disciplina: | 810.9003 |
Soggetto topico: | American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Environmental literature - United States - History and criticism | |
Environmentalism in literature | |
Ecology in literature | |
Nature in literature | |
Persona (resp. second.): | PetersheimSteven |
JonesMadison, IV | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Writing the environment in nineteenth-century American literature |
ISBN: | 1-4985-0838-3 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910798172603321 |
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