Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History (Hardcover)

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History illuminates how literary experimentation with natural history provides penumbral views of environmental survival. The book brings together feminist revisions of scientific objectivity and critical race theory on diaspora to show how biogeography influenced material and metaphorical concepts of species and race. It also highlights how lesser known writers of color like Simon Pokagon and James McCune Smith connected species migration and mutability to forms of racial uplift. The book situates these literary visions of environmental fragility and survival amidst the development of Darwinian theories of evolution and against a westward expanding American settler colonialism.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Release date:	November 2021
Authors:	Juliana Chow
Dimensions:	236 x 158 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	290
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-84571-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
LSN:	1-108-84571-1
Barcode:	9781108845717

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