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Environmental evasion : the literary, critical, and cultural politics of "Nature's Nation" /

How do we reconcile the abstract reverence for the natural world central to American literary history, beginning with Ralph Waldo Emersons "Nature," with over a century and a half of widespread environmental destruction? Environmental Evasion examines the environmental implications of lite...

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Основен автор: Willis, Lloyd, 1978-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 2010.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=363445
Подобни документи: Print version:: Environmental evasion.
Съдържание:
  • Introduction: American literature and environmental politics. Chapter 1: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and the formation of American literature's core environmental values
  • Chapter 2: James Fenimore Cooper, canon formation, and American literature's erasure of environmental anxiety
  • Chapter 3: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the American canon's erasure of material nature
  • Chapter 4: Willa Cather and John Steinbeck, environmental schizophrenia and monstrous ecology
  • Chapter 5: Zora Neale Hurston, the power of Harlem, and the promise of Florida
  • Afterword: Ernest Hemingway, and American literature's legacy of environmental disengagement.