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The geopoetics of modernism /

Rebecca Walsh connects a range of American modernist poets to the work of well known American geographers such as Ellsworth Huntington and Ellen Churchill Semple, as well as to the National Geographic magazine. This book considers the role of academic and popular forms of geography in shaping the ex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walsh, Rebecca Ann, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Geographical encounters, modernist geopoetics
  • Academic and popular geography: global connections, environmentalist style
  • The "terraqueous" globe: Walt Whitman and the cosmological geography of Humboldt and Somerville
  • African diasporic re-placing: race and environment in the poetry of Helene Johnson and Langston Hughes
  • (Trans) nation, geography, and genius: Gertrude Stein's geographical history of America
  • H.D.'s trilogy as transnational palimpsest
  • Conclusion.