Writing The Environment In Nineteenth Century American Literature
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Writing the Environment in Nineteenth Century American Literature
Author | : Steven Petersheim,Madison Jones IV |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2015-09-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781498508384 |
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The nineteenth-century roots of environmental writing in American literature are often mentioned in passing and sometimes studied piece by piece. Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature brings together numerous explorations of environmentally-aware writing across the genres of nineteenth-century literature. Like Lawrence Buell, the authors of this collection find Thoreau’s writing a touchstone of nineteenth-century environmental writing, particularly focusing on Thoreau’s claim that humans may function as “scribes of nature.” However, these studies of Thoreau’s antecedents, contemporaries, and successors also reveal a range of other writers in the nineteenth century whose literary treatments of nature are often more environmentally attuned than most readers have noticed. The writers whose works are studied in this collection include canonical and forgotten writers, men and women, early nineteenth-century and late nineteenth-century authors, pioneers and conservationists. They drew attention to the conflicted relationships between humans and the American continent, as experienced by Native Americans and European Americans. Taken together, these essays offer a fresh perspective on the roots of environmental literature in nineteenth-century American nonfiction, fiction, and poetry as well as in multi-genre compositions such as the travel writings of Margaret Fuller. Bringing largely forgotten voices such as John Godman alongside canonical voices such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson, the authors whose writings are studied in this collection produced a diverse tapestry of nascent American environmental writing in the nineteenth-century. From early nineteenth-century writers such as poet Philip Freneau and novelist Charles Brockden Brown to later nineteenth-century conservationists such as John James Audubon and John Muir, Scribes of Nature shows the development of an environmental consciousness and a growing conservationist ethos in American literature. Given their often surprisingly healthy respect for the natural environment, these nineteenth-century writers offer us much to consider in an age of environmental crisis. The complexities of the supposed nature/culture divide still work into our lives today as economic and environmental issues are often seen at loggerheads when they ought to be seen as part of the same conversation of what it means to live healthy lives, and to pass on a healthy world to those who follow us in a world where human activity is becoming increasingly threatening to the health of our planet.
Ecogothic in Nineteenth Century American Literature
Author | : Dawn Keetley,Matthew Wynn Sivils |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2017-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781315464916 |
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First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Nineteenth Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History
Author | : Juliana Chow |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2021-11-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108845717 |
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This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of dispersal. It will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-Century American literature and Literature and the Environment.
Writing the Goodlife
Author | : Priscilla Solis Ybarra |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2016-03-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780816532001 |
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"The book looks to long-established traditions of environmentalist thought alive in Mexican American literary history over the last 150 years"--Provided by publisher.
Converging Stories
Author | : Jeffrey Myers |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0820327441 |
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This book argues that in US literature, discourse on the themes of race and ecology is too narrowly focused on the twentieth century and does not adequately take into account how these themes are interrelated. This study broadens the field by looking at writings from the nineteenth century.
Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth Century American Life
Author | : Brian C. Black |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2006-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780313024672 |
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The nineteenth-century saw a significant transformation in the United States. In one short century, the nation had seen the populating of the Great Plains and West, the decimation of native Indian tribes, the growth of national transportation and communication networks, and the rise of major cities. The century also witnessed the destruction of the nation's forests, battles over land and water, and the ascent of agribusiness. With these changes in resource use patterns and values came a concordant shift in attitudes toward nature. Conservation and preservation emerged as watchwords for the 1900s. The century that started with an attitude of environmental conquest thus ended by embracing conservation and a new environmental awareness.
The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth Century American Literature
Author | : Russ Castronovo |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2014-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199355891 |
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The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature will offer a cutting-edge assessment of the period's literature, offering readers practical insights and proactive strategies for exploring novels, poems, and other literary creations.
Fallen Forests
Author | : Karen L. Kilcup |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 2013-05-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780820332864 |
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In 1844, Lydia Sigourney asserted, "Man's warfare on the trees is terrible." Like Sigourney many American women of her day engaged with such issues as sustainability, resource wars, globalization, voluntary simplicity, Christian ecology, and environmental justice. Illuminating the foundations for contemporary women's environmental writing, Fallen Forests shows how their nineteenth-century predecessors marshaled powerful affective, ethical, and spiritual resources to chastise, educate, and motivate readers to engage in positive social change. Fallen Forests contributes to scholarship in American women's writing, ecofeminism, ecocriticism, and feminist rhetoric, expanding the literary, historical, and theoretical grounds for some of today's most pressing environmental debates. Karen L. Kilcup rejects prior critical emphases on sentimentalism to show how women writers have drawn on their literary emotional intelligence to raise readers' consciousness about social and environmental issues. She also critiques ecocriticism's idealizing tendency, which has elided women's complicity in agendas that depart from today's environmental orthodoxies. Unlike previous ecocritical works, Fallen Forests includes marginalized texts by African American, Native American, Mexican American, working-class, and non-Protestant women. Kilcup also enlarges ecocriticism's genre foundations, showing how Cherokee oratory, travel writing, slave narrative, diary, polemic, sketches, novels, poetry, and expos intervene in important environmental debates.