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Environmental Practice and Early American Literature (Hardcover, New)
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Environmental Practice and Early American Literature (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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This original and provocative study tells the story of American
literary history from the perspective of its environmental context.
Weaving together close readings of early American texts with
ecological histories of tobacco, potatoes, apples and honey bees,
Michael Ziser presents a method for literary criticism that
explodes the conceptual distinction between the civilized and
natural world. Beginning with the English exploration of Virginia
in the sixteenth century, Ziser argues that the settlement of the
'New World' - and the cultivation and exploitation of its bounty -
dramatically altered how writers used language to describe the
phenomena they encountered on the frontier. Examining the work of
Harriot, Grainger, Cooper, Thoreau and others, Ziser reveals how
these authors, whether consciously or not, transcribed the vibrant
ecology of North America, and the ways that the environment helped
codify a uniquely American literary aesthetic of lasting
importance.
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