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
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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
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| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Ecocritical Theory and Practice