The environmental imagination : Thoreau, nature writing, and the formation of American culture /

With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in The Environmental Imagination, the most ambitious study to date of how literature represents the natural...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Buell, Lawrence
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Knowledge > Natural history.
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Et les sciences naturelles.
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862.
Thoreau, Henry David.
Walden, or life in the woods.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Environmental protection > United States > History.
Environmental protection in literature.
Natural history > United States > History.
Nature in literature.
Environnement > Protection > États-Unis > Histoire.
Environnement > Protection, dans la littérature.
Sciences naturelles > États-Unis > Histoire.
Nature dans la littérature.
Américains dans la littérature.
Environmental protection.
Natural history.
Umwelt > Motiv
Kultur
Natur > Motiv
Letterkunde.
Natuur.
Natuurbehoud.
Milieufilosofie.
United States.
USA.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • I. Historical and Theoretical Contexts. 1. Pastoral Ideology. 2. New World Dreams and Environmental Actualities. 3. Representing the Environment. 4. Walden's Environmental Projects
  • II. Forms of Literary Ecocentrism. 5. The Aesthetics of Relinquishment. 6. Nature's Personhood. 7. Nature's Face, Mind's Eye: Realizing the Seasons. 8. Place. 9. Environmental Apocalypticism
  • III. Environmental sainthood. 10. The Thoreauvian Pilgrimage. 11. The Canonization and Recanonization of the Green Thoreau. 12. Text as Testament: Reading Walden for the Author
  • Appendix: Nature's Genres: Environmental Nonfiction at the Time of Thoreau's Emergence.

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