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This Norton Critical Edition includes: The authoritative text of
Absalom, Absalom!, established by Noel Polk in 1986 and accompanied
by Susan Scott Parrish's introduction and explanatory footnotes.
Two maps and five other images. A rich selection of background and
contextual materials carefully arranged to draw readers into the
American South of William Faulkner's imagination. Topics include
"Contemporary Reception," "The Writer and His Work," and
"Historical Contexts." Seventeen critical essays on the novel's
major themes, from classic literary critiques to recent scholarship
on, among other topics, race, gender, and the environment. A
chronology and a selected bibliography.
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which covered nearly thirty
thousand square miles across seven states, was the most destructive
river flood in U.S. history. Due to the speed of new media and the
slow progress of the flood, this was the first environmental
disaster to be experienced on a mass scale. As it moved from north
to south down an environmentally and technologically altered
valley, inundating plantations and displacing more than half a
million people, the flood provoked an intense and lasting cultural
response. The Flood Year 1927 draws from newspapers, radio
broadcasts, political cartoons, vaudeville, blues songs, poetry,
and fiction to show how this event took on public meanings.
Americans at first seemed united in what Herbert Hoover called a
"great relief machine," but deep rifts soon arose. Southerners,
pointing to faulty federal levee design, decried the attack of
Yankee water. The condition of African American evacuees in
"concentration camps" prompted pundits like W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida
B. Wells to warn of the return of slavery to Dixie. And
environmentalists like Gifford Pinchot called the flood "the most
colossal blunder in civilized history." Susan Scott Parrish
examines how these and other key figures--from entertainers Will
Rogers, Miller & Lyles, and Bessie Smith to authors Sterling
Brown, William Faulkner, and Richard Wright--shaped public
awareness and collective memory of the event. The crises of this
period that usually dominate historical accounts are war and
financial collapse, but The Flood Year 1927 enables us to assess
how mediated environmental disasters became central to modern
consciousness.
A richly nuanced cultural history of the Great Mississippi flood
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river
flood in U.S. history, drowning crops and displacing more than half
a million people across seven states. It was also the first
environmental disaster to be experienced virtually on a mass scale.
The Flood Year 1927 draws from newspapers, radio broadcasts,
political cartoons, vaudeville, blues songs, poetry, and fiction to
show how this event provoked an intense and lasting cultural
response. Americans at first seemed united in what Herbert Hoover
called a "great relief machine," but deep rifts soon arose.
Southerners, pointing to faulty federal levee design, decried the
attack of Yankee water. The condition of African American evacuees
prompted comparisons to slavery from pundits like W.E.B. Du Bois
and Ida B. Wells. And environmentalists like Gifford Pinchot called
the flood "the most colossal blunder in civilized history." Susan
Scott Parrish examines how these and other key figures-from
entertainers Will Rogers, Miller & Lyles, and Bessie Smith to
authors Sterling Brown, William Faulkner, and Richard Wright-shaped
public awareness and collective memory of the event. The crises of
this period that usually dominate historical accounts are war and
financial collapse, but The Flood Year 1927 allows us to assess how
mediated environmental disasters became central to modern
consciousness.
While in London in 1705, Robert Beverley wrote and published The
History and Present State of Virginia, one of the earliest printed
English-language histories about North America by an author born
there. Like his brother-in-law William Byrd II, Beverley was a
scion of Virginia's planter elite, personally ambitious and at odds
with royal governors in the colony. As a native-born American-most
famously claiming ""I am an Indian-he provided English readers with
the first thorough going account of the province's past, natural
history, Indians, and current politics and society. In this new
edition, Susan Scott Parrish situates Beverley and his History in
the context of the metropolitan-provincial political and cultural
issues of his day and explores the many contradictions embedded in
his narrative. Parrish's introduction and the accompanying
annotation, along with a fresh transcription of the 1705
publication and a more comprehensive comparison of emendations in
the 1722 edition, will open Beverley's History to new,
twenty-first-century readings by students of transatlantic history,
colonialism, natural science, literature, and ethnohistory.
This Companion offers a capacious overview of American
environmental literature and criticism. Tracing environmental
literatures from the gates of the Manzanar War Relocation Camp in
California to the island of St. Croix, from the notebooks of
eighteenth-century naturalists to the practices of contemporary
activists, this book offers readers a broad, multimedia definition
of 'literature', a transnational, settler colonial comprehension of
America, and a more-than-green definition of 'environment'.
Demonstrating links between ecocriticism and such fields as Black
feminism, food studies, decolonial activism, Latinx studies,
Indigenous studies, queer theory, and carceral studies, the volume
reveals the persistent relevance of literary methods within the
increasingly interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities,
while also modeling practices of literary reading shaped by this
interdisciplinary turn. The result is a volume that will prove
indispensable both to students seeking an overview of American
environmental literature/criticism and to established scholars
seeking new approaches to the field.
This Companion offers a capacious overview of American
environmental literature and criticism. Tracing environmental
literatures from the gates of the Manzanar War Relocation Camp in
California to the island of St. Croix, from the notebooks of
eighteenth-century naturalists to the practices of contemporary
activists, this book offers readers a broad, multimedia definition
of 'literature', a transnational, settler colonial comprehension of
America, and a more-than-green definition of 'environment'.
Demonstrating links between ecocriticism and such fields as Black
feminism, food studies, decolonial activism, Latinx studies,
Indigenous studies, queer theory, and carceral studies, the volume
reveals the persistent relevance of literary methods within the
increasingly interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities,
while also modeling practices of literary reading shaped by this
interdisciplinary turn. The result is a volume that will prove
indispensable both to students seeking an overview of American
environmental literature/criticism and to established scholars
seeking new approaches to the field.
Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for
settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In
""American Curiosity"", Susan Scott Parrish examines how various
people in the British colonies understood and represented the
natural world around them from the late sixteenth century through
the eighteenth. Parrish shows how scientific knowledge about
America, rather than flowing strictly from metropole to colony,
emerged from a horizontal exchange of information across the
Atlantic. Parrish uncovers early descriptions of American natural
phenomena as well as clues to how people in the colonies construed
their own identities through the natural world. Although social
hierarchies persisted within the natural history community, the
contributions of any participant were considered valuable as long
as they supplied novel data or specimens from America. Thus
Anglo-American non-elites, women, Indians, and enslaved Africans
all played crucial roles in gathering and relaying new information
to Europe. ""American Curiosity"" enlarges our notions of the
scientific Enlightenment by looking beyond European centers to find
a socially inclusive American base to a true transatlantic
expansion of knowledge.
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