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American Environmental Fiction, 1782-1847 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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American Environmental Fiction, 1782-1847 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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While Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are often
credited with inventing American environmental writing, Matthew
Wynn Sivils argues that the works of these Transcendentalists must
be placed within a larger literary tradition that has its origins
in early Republic natural histories, Indian captivity narratives,
Gothic novels, and juvenile literature. Authors such as William
Bartram, Ann Eliza Bleecker, and Samuel Griswold Goodrich, to name
just a few, enabled the development of a credibly American brand of
proto-environmental fiction. Sivils argues that these seeds of
environmental literature would come to fruition in James Fenimore
Cooper's The Pioneers, which he argues is the first uniquely
environmental American novel. He then connects the biogeographical
politics of Cooper's The Prairie with European anti-Americanism;
and concludes this study by examining how James Kirke Paulding,
Thomas Cole, and James Fenimore Cooper imaginatively addressed the
problem of human culpability and nationalistic cohesiveness in the
face of natural disasters. With their focus on the character and
implications of the imagined American landscape, these key works of
early environmental thought contributed to the growing influence of
the natural environment on the identity of the fledgling nation
decades before the influences of Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's
Walden.
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