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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Willis, Lloyd, 1978-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 2010.
Temas:
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
American literature > History and criticism.
Environmentalism in literature.
Human ecology in literature.
Environmental policy in literature.
Environmental literature > History and criticism.
Environnementalisme dans la littérature.
Écologie humaine dans la littérature.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale, dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
Environmental literature.
Literatur
Umwelt > Motiv
Umweltpolitik
Multi-User
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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.

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