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Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Author : Steven Petersheim,Madison Jones IV
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498508384

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Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Steven Petersheim,Madison Jones IV Pdf

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.

Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Author : Dawn Keetley,Matthew Wynn Sivils
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315464916

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Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Dawn Keetley,Matthew Wynn Sivils Pdf

First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History

Author : Juliana Chow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108845717

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Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History by Juliana Chow Pdf

This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of dispersal. It will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-Century American literature and Literature and the Environment.

Encyclopedia of the Environment in American Literature

Author : Geoff Hamilton,Brian Jones
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476600536

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Encyclopedia of the Environment in American Literature by Geoff Hamilton,Brian Jones Pdf

This encyclopedia introduces readers to American poetry, fiction and nonfiction with a focus on the environment (broadly defined as humanity's natural surroundings), from the discovery of America through the present. The work includes biographical and literary entries on material from early explorers and colonists such as Columbus, Bartolome de Las Casas and Thomas Harriot; Native American creation myths; canonical 18th- and 19th-century works of Jefferson, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Hawthorne, Twain, Dickinson and others; to more recent figures such as Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Stanley Cavell, Rachel Carson, Jon Krakauer and Al Gore. It is meant to provide a synoptic appreciation of how the very concept of the environment has changed over the past five centuries, offering both a general introduction to the topic and a valuable resource for high school and university courses focused on environmental issues.

The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Author : Russ Castronovo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199355891

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The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Russ Castronovo Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature will offer a cutting-edge assessment of the period's literature, offering readers practical insights and proactive strategies for exploring novels, poems, and other literary creations.

John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

Author : Edward Watts,David J. Carlson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611484212

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John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture by Edward Watts,David J. Carlson Pdf

John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture is a critical reassessment of American novelist, editor, critic, and activist John Neal, arguing for his importance to the ongoing reassessment of the American Renaissance and the broader cultural history of the Nineteenth Century. Contributors (including scholars from the United States, Germany, England, Italy, and Israel) present Neal as an innovative literary stylist, penetrating cultural critic, pioneering regionalist, and vital participant in the business of letters in America over his sixty-year career.

Converging Stories

Author : Jeffrey Myers
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820327441

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Converging Stories by Jeffrey Myers Pdf

This book argues that in US literature, discourse on the themes of race and ecology is too narrowly focused on the twentieth century and does not adequately take into account how these themes are interrelated. This study broadens the field by looking at writings from the nineteenth century.

Life Mapping as Cultural Legacy

Author : I-Chun Wang,Mary Theis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527564787

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Life Mapping as Cultural Legacy by I-Chun Wang,Mary Theis Pdf

This volume celebrates a fascinating variety of nonfiction known as life writing. This genre resonates quintessentially with the core of the humanities in its profoundly individual ways of fusing narrators with their narrative subjects. The book brings together scholars from around the world to explore the personal mapping of such narrators in the context of their cultural legacies. The hybrid fusions themselves form several subgenres that complement each other as they affirm human dignity and values and our need for human connection, felt at all times, but especially during times of globally met threats. The ever-expanding forms of hybridography here—along with testimonies, diaries, letters and journals—bear witness to how individuals have contrived to overcome their own traumatic sources of pain and suffering to discover joy and how to further map their pathways forward. The narratives not only communicate important information and aesthetic beauty needed to prolong troubled lives due to social anxiety or mental illness, but also challenge sociocultural issues involving stigma, migration, racial discrimination and persecution, human trafficking, and ecological concerns. Global in scope, personal in focus, and historically and culturally contextualized, the analyses provided here once again illustrate how much we have to learn from each other.

Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Life

Author : Brian C. Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313024672

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Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Life by Brian C. Black Pdf

The nineteenth-century saw a significant transformation in the United States. In one short century, the nation had seen the populating of the Great Plains and West, the decimation of native Indian tribes, the growth of national transportation and communication networks, and the rise of major cities. The century also witnessed the destruction of the nation's forests, battles over land and water, and the ascent of agribusiness. With these changes in resource use patterns and values came a concordant shift in attitudes toward nature. Conservation and preservation emerged as watchwords for the 1900s. The century that started with an attitude of environmental conquest thus ended by embracing conservation and a new environmental awareness.

Stronger, Truer, Bolder

Author : Karen L. Kilcup
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820358604

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Stronger, Truer, Bolder by Karen L. Kilcup Pdf

Virtually every famous nineteenth-century writer (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson)— and many not so famous—wrote literature for children; many contributed regularly to children’s periodicals, and many entered the field of nature writing, responding to and forwarding the century’s huge social and cultural changes. Appreciating America’s unique natural wonders dovetailed with children’s growth as citizens, but children’s journals often exceeded a pedagogical purpose, intending also to entertain and delight. Though these volumes aimed at a relatively conservative and mostly white, middle-class, and affluent audience, some selections allowed both children and their parents room for imaginative escape from restrictive social norms. Covering a period that initially regarded children’s natural bodies as laboring resources, Stronger, Truer, Bolder traces the shifting pedagogical impulse surrounding nature and the environment through the transformations that included America’s nineteenth century emergence as an industrial power. Karen L. Kilcup shows how children’s literature mirrored those changes in various ways. In its earliest incarnations, it taught children (and their parents) facts about the natural world and about proper behavior vis-à-vis both human and nonhuman others. More significantly, as periodical writing for children advanced, this literature increasingly promoted children’s environmental agency and envisioned their potential influence on concerns ranging from animal rights and interspecies equity to conservation and environmental justice. Such understanding of and engagement with nature not only propelled children toward ethical adulthood but also formed a foundation for responsible American citizenship.

Transatlantic Literary Ecologies

Author : Kevin Hutchings,John Miller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317087281

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Transatlantic Literary Ecologies by Kevin Hutchings,John Miller Pdf

Opening a dialogue between ecocriticism and transatlantic studies, this collection shows how the two fields inform, complement, and complicate each other. The editors situate the volume in its critical contexts by providing a detailed literary and historical overview of nineteenth-century transatlantic socioenvironmental issues involving such topics as the contemporary fur and timber trades, colonialism and agricultural "improvement," literary discourses on conservation, and the consequences of industrial capitalism, urbanization, and urban environmental activism. The chapters move from the broad to the particular, offering insights into Romanticism’s transatlantic discourses on nature and culture, examining British Victorian representations of nature in light of their reception by American writers and readers, providing in-depth analyses of literary forms such as the adventure novel, travel narratives, and theological and scientific writings, and bringing transatlantic and ecocritical perspectives to bear on classic works of nineteenth-century American literature. By opening a critical dialogue between these two vital areas of scholarship, Transatlantic Literary Ecologies demonstrates some of the key ways in which Western environmental consciousness and associated literary practices arose in the context of transatlantic literary and cultural exchanges during the long nineteenth century.

Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century

Author : Christine Gerhardt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110481327

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Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century by Christine Gerhardt Pdf

This handbook offers students and researchers a compact introduction to the nineteenth-century American novel in the light of current debates, theoretical concepts, and critical methodologies. The volume turns to the nineteenth century as a formative era in American literary history, a time that saw both the rise of the novel as a genre, and the emergence of an independent, confident American culture. A broad range of concise essays by European and American scholars demonstrates how some of America‘s most well-known and influential novels responded to and participated in the radical transformations that characterized American culture between the early republic and the age of imperial expansion. Part I consists of 7 systematic essays on key historical and critical frameworks ― including debates aboutrace and citizenship, transnationalism, environmentalism and print culture, as well as sentimentalism, romance and the gothic, realism and naturalism. Part II provides 22 essays on individual novels, each combining an introduction to relevant cultural contexts with a fresh close reading and the discussion of critical perspectives shaped by literary and cultural theory.

Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature

Author : Sarah Daw
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474430043

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Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature by Sarah Daw Pdf

A study of a key modernist form, its theory, practice and legacy.

Atmosfears: The Uncanny Climate of Contemporary Ecofiction

Author : Natalie Dederichs
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839465875

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Atmosfears: The Uncanny Climate of Contemporary Ecofiction by Natalie Dederichs Pdf

We live in a critical moment in history, often called the »Anthropocene«, that is defined by unprecedented scales of uncertainty. Natalie Dederichs draws on insights from the new materialisms about the entangled nature of planetary existence and combines them with approaches to aesthetics from fields as diverse as reader-response criticism, phenomenology, Gothic and media studies. She introduces a poetics of atmospheric re(lation)ality as a necessary component of any ecological engagement with fiction that fully embraces literary encounters with the inaccessible and elusive as expressed in uncanny atmospheric reading experiences.

The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown

Author : Philip Barnard,Hilary Emmett,Stephen Shapiro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199860074

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The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown by Philip Barnard,Hilary Emmett,Stephen Shapiro Pdf

Over the past few decades, the writings of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) have reclaimed a place of prominence in the American literary canon. Yet despite the explosion of teaching, research, and an ever-increasing number of doctoral dissertations, there remains no up-to-date overview of Brown's work. The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown provides a state-of-the-art survey of the life and writings of Charles Brockden Brown, a key writer of the Atlantic revolutionary age and U.S. Early Republic. The seven novels he published during his lifetime are now studied for their narrative complexity, innovations in genre, and social-political commentaries on life in early America and the revolutionary Atlantic. Through the late twentieth century, Brown was best known as an author of political romances in the gothic mode that proved to be widely influential in romantic era, and has generated large amounts of scholarship as a crucial figure in the history of the American novel. This Handbook extends its focus beyond the well-known novels to address the full range of Brown's prolific literary career. The Handbook includes original essays on all of Brown's fiction and nonfiction writings, and offers new interpretations of the contexts of his work: from the literary, social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The thirty-five contributors in this volume speak in new ways about Brown's depictions of literary theory, social justice, sexuality, and property relations, as well as colonialism, slavery, Native Americans, and women's rights. Brown's perspectives on American and global history, emerging modernity, selfhood and otherness, and other topics, are explained in comprehensible and up-to-date terms. In addition to opening up new avenues of research, The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown provides the intellectual foundations needed to understand Brown's enduring impact and literary legacy.