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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.
Romantic Sustainability is a collection of sixteen essays that
examine the British Romantic era in ecocritical terms. Written by
scholars from five continents, this international collection
addresses the works of traditional Romantic writers such as John
Keats, Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and Samuel
Coleridge but also delves into ecocritical topics related to
authors added to the canon more recently, such as Elizabeth
Inchbald and John Clare. The essays examine geological formations,
clouds, and landscapes as well as the posthuman and the monstrous.
The essays are grouped into rough categories that start with
inspiration and the imagination before moving to the varied types
of consumption associated with human interaction with the natural
world. Subsequent essays in the volume focus on environmental
destruction, monstrous creations, and apocalypse. The common theme
is sustainability, as each contributor examines Romantic ideas that
intersect with ecocriticism and relates literary works to questions
about race, gender, religion, and identity.
The nineteenth-century roots of environmental writing in American
literature are often mentioned in passing and sometimes studied
piece by piece. Scribes of Nature: Writing the Environment in
Nineteenth-Century American Literature 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.
Romantic Sustainability is a collection of sixteen essays that
examine the British Romantic era in ecocritical terms. Written by
scholars from five continents, this international collection
addresses the works of traditional Romantic writers such as John
Keats, Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and Samuel
Coleridge but also delves into ecocritical topics related to
authors added to the canon more recently, such as Elizabeth
Inchbald and John Clare. The essays examine geological formations,
clouds, and landscapes as well as the posthuman and the monstrous.
The essays are grouped into rough categories that start with
inspiration and the imagination before moving to the varied types
of consumption associated with human interaction with the natural
world. Subsequent essays in the volume focus on environmental
destruction, monstrous creations, and apocalypse. The common theme
is sustainability, as each contributor examines Romantic ideas that
intersect with ecocriticism and relates literary works to questions
about race, gender, religion, and identity.
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