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OurCommonDwelling explores why America's first literary circle
turned to nature in the 1830s and '40s. When the New England
Transcendentalists spiritualized nature, they were reacting to
intense class conflict in the region's industrializing cities.
Their goal was to find a secular foundation for their social
authority as an intellectual elite. New England Transcendentalism
engages with works by William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and
others. The works of these great authors, interpreted in historical
context, show that both environmental exploitation and conscious
love of nature co-evolved as part of the historical development of
American capitalism.
The Literary Heritage of the Environmental Justice Movement
showcases environmental literature from writers who fought for
women's rights, native rights, workers' power, and the abolition of
slavery during the Romantic Era. Many Romantic texts take flight
from society and enact solitary white male encounters with a
feminine nature. However, the symbolic landscapes of Romanticism
were often radicalized by writers like Olaudah Equiano, Frederick
Douglass, William Apess, George Copway, Mary Wollstonecraft, Lydia
Maria Child, John Clare, and Henry Thoreau. These authors showed
how the oppression of human beings and the exploitation of nature
are the twin driving forces of capitalism and colonialism. In
addition to spotlighting new kinds of environmental literature,
this book also reinterprets familiar texts by figures like William
Blake, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth, and
Walt Whitman, and it shows how these household figures were writing
in conversation with their radical contemporaries.
OurCommonDwelling explores why America's first literary circle
turned to nature in the 1830s and '40s. When the New England
Transcendentalists spiritualized nature, they were reacting to
intense class conflict in the region's industrializing cities.
Their goal was to find a secular foundation for their social
authority as an intellectual elite. New England Transcendentalism
engages with works by William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and
others. The works of these great authors, interpreted in historical
context, show that both environmental exploitation and conscious
love of nature co-evolved as part of the historical development of
American capitalism.
OurCommonDwelling explores why America's first literary circle
turned to nature in the 1830s and '40s. When the New England
Transcendentalists spiritualized nature, they were reacting to
intense class conflict in the region's industrializing cities.
Their goal was to find a secular foundation for their social
authority as an intellectual elite. New England Transcendentalism
engages with works by William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and
others. The works of these great authors, interpreted in historical
context, show that both environmental exploitation and conscious
love of nature co-evolved as part of the historical development of
American capitalism.
The Literary Heritage of the Environmental Justice Movement
showcases environmental literature from writers who fought for
women's rights, native rights, workers' power, and the abolition of
slavery during the Romantic Era. Many Romantic texts take flight
from society and enact solitary white male encounters with a
feminine nature. However, the symbolic landscapes of Romanticism
were often radicalized by writers like Olaudah Equiano, Frederick
Douglass, William Apess, George Copway, Mary Wollstonecraft, Lydia
Maria Child, John Clare, and Henry Thoreau. These authors showed
how the oppression of human beings and the exploitation of nature
are the twin driving forces of capitalism and colonialism. In
addition to spotlighting new kinds of environmental literature,
this book also reinterprets familiar texts by figures like William
Blake, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth, and
Walt Whitman, and it shows how these household figures were writing
in conversation with their radical contemporaries.
This superb anthology brings together some of the most powerful and
compelling writing about the Grand Canyon--stories, essays, and
poems written across five centuries by people inhabiting,
surviving, and attempting to understand what one explorer called
the "Great Unknown." "The Grand Canyon Reader" includes traditional
stories from native tribes, reports by explorers, journals by early
tourists, and contemporary essays and stories by such beloved
writers as John McPhee, Ann Zwinger, Edward Abbey, Terry Tempest
Williams, Barry Lopez, Linda Hogan, and Craig Childs. Lively tales
written by unschooled river runners, unabashedly popular fiction,
and memoirs stand alongside finely crafted literary works to
represent full range of human experience in this wild, daunting,
and inspiring landscape.
This superb anthology brings together some of the most powerful and
compelling writing about the Grand Canyon--stories, essays, and
poems written across five centuries by people inhabiting,
surviving, and attempting to understand what one explorer called
the "Great Unknown." "The Grand Canyon Reader" includes traditional
stories from native tribes, reports by explorers, journals by early
tourists, and contemporary essays and stories by such beloved
writers as John McPhee, Ann Zwinger, Edward Abbey, Terry Tempest
Williams, Barry Lopez, Linda Hogan, and Craig Childs. Lively tales
written by unschooled river runners, unabashedly popular fiction,
and memoirs stand alongside finely crafted literary works to
represent full range of human experience in this wild, daunting,
and inspiring landscape.
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