Fallen Forests : Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women's Environmental Writing, 1781-1924 /

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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 fo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kilcup, Karen L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens and London : University of Georgia Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Umweltschutz
Ecocriticism
Frauenliteratur
Nature in literature.
Nature conservation in literature.
Environmental protection in literature.
Ecology in literature.
American literature > Women authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Nature dans la litterature.
Environnement > Protection, dans la litterature.
Écrits de femmes americains > Histoire et critique.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Grounding the texts : an introduction
  • "We planted, tended, and harvested our corn" : native mothers, resource wars, and conversion narratives
  • "Such progress in civilization" : forest life and mushroom growth, East, West, and South
  • Golden hands : weaving America
  • Gilt-edged or "beautifully unadorned" : fashioning feelings
  • Domestic and national moralities : justice in the West
  • After words : toward common ground.

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