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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 : 53,5 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 : 46,9 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 : 41,8 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.

Converging Stories

Author : Jeffrey Myers
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,9 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.

Writing the Goodlife

Author : Priscilla Solis Ybarra
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816532001

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Writing the Goodlife by Priscilla Solis Ybarra Pdf

"The book looks to long-established traditions of environmentalist thought alive in Mexican American literary history over the last 150 years"--Provided by publisher.

Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing

Author : Dorri Beam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139489232

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Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing by Dorri Beam Pdf

In this 2010 book, Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline Hopkins, Beam traces this style through a variety of literary endeavors and reconstructs the political rationale behind the writers' commitments to this form of prose. Beam provides both close readings of a number of familiar and unfamiliar works and an overarching account of the importance of this form of writing, suggesting new ways of looking at style as a medium through which gender can be signified and reshaped. Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth Century American Women's Writing redefines our understanding of women's relation to aesthetics and their contribution to both American literary romanticism and feminist reform. This illuminating account provides valuable new insights for scholars of American literature and women's writing.

Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Life

Author : Brian C. Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,5 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.

Fallen Forests

Author : Karen L. Kilcup
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820332864

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Fallen Forests by Karen L. Kilcup Pdf

In 1844, Lydia Sigourney asserted, "Man's warfare on the trees is terrible." Like Sigourney many American women of her day engaged with such issues as sustainability, resource wars, globalization, voluntary simplicity, Christian ecology, and environmental justice. Illuminating the foundations for contemporary women's environmental writing, Fallen Forests shows how their nineteenth-century predecessors marshaled powerful affective, ethical, and spiritual resources to chastise, educate, and motivate readers to engage in positive social change. Fallen Forests contributes to scholarship in American women's writing, ecofeminism, ecocriticism, and feminist rhetoric, expanding the literary, historical, and theoretical grounds for some of today's most pressing environmental debates. Karen L. Kilcup rejects prior critical emphases on sentimentalism to show how women writers have drawn on their literary emotional intelligence to raise readers' consciousness about social and environmental issues. She also critiques ecocriticism's idealizing tendency, which has elided women's complicity in agendas that depart from today's environmental orthodoxies. Unlike previous ecocritical works, Fallen Forests includes marginalized texts by African American, Native American, Mexican American, working-class, and non-Protestant women. Kilcup also enlarges ecocriticism's genre foundations, showing how Cherokee oratory, travel writing, slave narrative, diary, polemic, sketches, novels, poetry, and expos intervene in important environmental debates.

Encyclopedia of the Environment in American Literature

Author : Geoff Hamilton,Brian Jones
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : 55,9 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 : 46,7 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.

A Companion to American Literature

Author : Susan Belasco,Theresa Strouth Gaul,Linck Johnson,Michael Soto
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1864 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119653356

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A Companion to American Literature by Susan Belasco,Theresa Strouth Gaul,Linck Johnson,Michael Soto Pdf

A comprehensive, chronological overview of American literature in three scholarly and authoritative volumes A Companion to American Literature traces the history and development of American literature from its early origins in Native American oral tradition to 21st century digital literature. This comprehensive three-volume set brings together contributions from a diverse international team of accomplished young scholars and established figures in the field. Contributors explore a broad range of topics in historical, cultural, political, geographic, and technological contexts, engaging the work of both well-known and non-canonical writers of every period. Volume One is an inclusive and geographically expansive examination of early American literature, applying a range of cultural and historical approaches and theoretical models to a dramatically expanded canon of texts. Volume Two covers American literature between 1820 and 1914, focusing on the development of print culture and the literary marketplace, the emergence of various literary movements, and the impact of social and historical events on writers and writings of the period. Spanning the 20th and early 21st centuries, Volume Three studies traditional areas of American literature as well as the literature from previously marginalized groups and contemporary writers often overlooked by scholars. This inclusive and comprehensive study of American literature: Examines the influences of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and disability on American literature Discusses the role of technology in book production and circulation, the rise of literacy, and changing reading practices and literary forms Explores a wide range of writings in multiple genres, including novels, short stories, dramas, and a variety of poetic forms, as well as autobiographies, essays, lectures, diaries, journals, letters, sermons, histories, and graphic narratives. Provides a thematic index that groups chapters by contexts and illustrates their links across different traditional chronological boundaries A Companion to American Literature is a valuable resource for students coming to the subject for the first time or preparing for field examinations, instructors in American literature courses, and scholars with more specialized interests in specific authors, genres, movements, or periods.

Life Mapping as Cultural Legacy

Author : I-Chun Wang,Mary Theis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,7 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.

Stronger, Truer, Bolder

Author : Karen L. Kilcup
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : 40,8 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.