0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century

Buy Now

Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature - The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,470
Discovery Miles 24 700
Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature - The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature...

Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature - The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature (Hardcover)

Steven Petersheim, Madison Jones IV; Contributions by Jeffrey Bilbro, Benjamin Darrell Crawford, Carrie Duke, Scott Honeycutt, Christoph Irmscher, Li-Ru Lu, Cecily Parks, Stephanie Peebles Tavera

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R2,470 Discovery Miles 24 700 | Repayment Terms: R231 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

The nineteenth-century roots of environmental writing in American literature are often mentioned in passing and sometimes studied piece by piece. Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature brings together numerous explorations of environmentally-aware writing across the genres of nineteenth-century literature. Like Lawrence Buell, the authors of this collection find Thoreau's writing a touchstone of nineteenth-century environmental writing, particularly focusing on Thoreau's claim that humans may function as "scribes of nature." However, these studies of Thoreau's antecedents, contemporaries, and successors also reveal a range of other writers in the nineteenth century whose literary treatments of nature are often more environmentally attuned than most readers have noticed. The writers whose works are studied in this collection include canonical and forgotten writers, men and women, early nineteenth-century and late nineteenth-century authors, pioneers and conservationists. They drew attention to the conflicted relationships between humans and the American continent, as experienced by Native Americans and European Americans. Taken together, these essays offer a fresh perspective on the roots of environmental literature in nineteenth-century American nonfiction, fiction, and poetry as well as in multi-genre compositions such as the travel writings of Margaret Fuller. Bringing largely forgotten voices such as John Godman alongside canonical voices such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson, the authors whose writings are studied in this collection produced a diverse tapestry of nascent American environmental writing in the nineteenth-century. From early nineteenth-century writers such as poet Philip Freneau and novelist Charles Brockden Brown to later nineteenth-century conservationists such as John James Audubon and John Muir, Scribes of Nature shows the development of an environmental consciousness and a growing conservationist ethos in American literature. Given their often surprisingly healthy respect for the natural environment, these nineteenth-century writers offer us much to consider in an age of environmental crisis. The complexities of the supposed nature/culture divide still work into our lives today as economic and environmental issues are often seen at loggerheads when they ought to be seen as part of the same conversation of what it means to live healthy lives, and to pass on a healthy world to those who follow us in a world where human activity is becoming increasingly threatening to the health of our planet.

General

Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of origin: United States
Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Release date: September 2015
Editors: Steven Petersheim • Madison Jones IV
Contributors: Jeffrey Bilbro • Benjamin Darrell Crawford • Carrie Duke • Scott Honeycutt • Christoph Irmscher • Li-Ru Lu • Cecily Parks • Stephanie Peebles Tavera
Dimensions: 234 x 160 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-0837-7
Categories: Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmentalist thought & ideology
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Promotions
LSN: 1-4985-0837-5
Barcode: 9781498508377

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Lateness and Modern European Literature
Ben Hutchinson Hardcover R3,251 Discovery Miles 32 510
The Circle of Our Vision - Dante's…
Ralph Pite Hardcover R1,581 Discovery Miles 15 810
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte Hardcover R451 R398 Discovery Miles 3 980
De Quincey's Disciplines
Josephine McDonagh Hardcover R4,150 Discovery Miles 41 500
Agnes Grey
Anne Bronte Hardcover R3,003 Discovery Miles 30 030
Shelley and Scripture - The Interpreting…
Bryan Shelley Hardcover R1,267 Discovery Miles 12 670
A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction…
Robert Mighall Hardcover R7,042 Discovery Miles 70 420
Dickens's Villains - Melodrama…
Juliet John Hardcover R6,170 Discovery Miles 61 700
Passion and Pathology in Victorian…
Jane Wood Hardcover R5,398 Discovery Miles 53 980
Housman's Poems
John Bayley Hardcover R3,070 Discovery Miles 30 700
I do I undo I redo - The Textual Genesis…
Finn Fordham Hardcover R4,360 Discovery Miles 43 600
The Indian English Novel - Nation…
Priyamvada Gopal Hardcover R3,688 Discovery Miles 36 880

See more

Partners