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The Environmental Imagination - Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (Paperback, Revised)
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The Environmental Imagination - Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (Paperback, Revised)
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With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a
need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation
to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in The
Environmental Imagination, the most ambitious study to date of how
literature represents the natural environment. With Thoreau's
Walden as a touchstone, Buell gives us a far-reaching account of
environmental perception, the place of nature in the history of
western thought, and the consequences for literary scholarship of
attempting to imagine a more "ecocentric" way of being. In doing
so, he provides a major new understanding of Thoreau's achievement
and, at the same time, a profound rethinking of our literary and
cultural reflections on nature. The green tradition in American
writing commands Buell's special attention, particularly
environmental nonfiction from colonial times to the present. In
works by writers from Crevecoeur to Wendell Berry, John Muir to
Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson to Leslie Silko, Mary Austin to Edward
Abbey, he examines enduring environmental themes such as the dream
of relinquishment, the personification of the nonhuman, an
attentiveness to environmental cycles, a devotion to place, and a
prophetic awareness of possible ecocatastrophe. At the center of
this study we find an image of Walden as a quest for greater
environmental awareness, an impetus and guide for Buell as he
develops a new vision of environmental writing and seeks a new way
of conceiving the relation between human imagination and
environmental actuality in the age of industrialization. Intricate
and challenging in its arguments, yet engagingly and elegantly
written, The Environmental Imagination is a major work of
scholarship, one that establishes a new basis for reading American
nature writing.
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