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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany, N.Y. :
State University of New York Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.