Ecological Restoration and the U.S. Nature and Environmental Writing Tradition - A Rewilding of American Letters (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This book presents a critical history of the intersections between American environmental literature and ecological restoration policy and practice. Through a storying-restorying-restoring framework, this book explores how entanglements between writers and places have produced literary interventions in restoration politics. The book considers the ways literary landscapes are politicized by writers themselves, and by conservationists, activists, policymakers, and others, in defense of U.S. public lands and the idea of wilderness. The book profiles five environmental writers and examines how their writings on nature, wildness, wilderness, conservation, preservation, and restoration have variously inspired and been translated into ecological restoration programs and campaigns by environmental organizations. The featured authors are Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) at Walden Pond, John Muir (1838-1914) in Yosemite National Park, Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) at his family's Wisconsin sand farm, Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998) in the Everglades, and Edward Abbey (1927-1989) in Glen Canyon. This book combines environmental history, literature, biography, philosophy, and politics in a commentary on considering (and developing) environmental literature's place in conversations on restoration ecology, ecological restoration, and rewilding.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Laura Smith
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	348
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-086147-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmentalist thought & ideology Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
LSN:	3-03-086147-3
Barcode:	9783030861476

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