Title 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

Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource Series Ecocritical theory and practice Ecocritical theory and practice. Contents Navigating the Interior : Edgar Huntly and the Mapping of Early America / Christopher Sloman -- John D. Godman and the Creation of the Ramble / Scott Honeycutt -- Celebrating the "Great, Round, Solid Self" of Earth in Hawthorne's Short Fiction / Steven Petersheim -- Learning to Woo Meaning from Apparent Chaos :The Wild Form of Summer on the Lakes / Jeffrey Bilbro -- Shadow and Liminal Space in Typee and Walden / Madison P. Jones IV -- Always Already Sexual : New Materialism in Whitman's Leaves of Grass / Stephanie Peebles Tavera -- The Swamps of Emily Dickinson / Cecily Parks -- An Ecological Manifest Destiny : Nation and Nature in Freneau's Poetry / Benjamin Crawford -- John James Audubon : From Proto-Ecological Sensibility to Conservation Ethics / Li-Ru Lu -- Recovering John Muir's Wild Gardens / Carrie Duke Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Environmental literature -- United States -- History and criticism Environmentalism in literature. Ecology in literature. Nature in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature Ecology in literature Environmental literature Environmentalism in literature Nature in literature United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Petersheim, Steven, editor Jones, Madison, IV, editor. LC no. 2019715852 ISBN 9781498508384 1498508383

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