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A Place for Humility : Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World /
"A Place for Humility examines Dickinson's and Whitman's poetry in conjunction with this important change in environmental perception, and explores the links between their poetic projects in the context of developing nineteenth-century environmental thought. Gerhardt argues that Dicki...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University Of Iowa Press,
2014.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: Noticing Small Worlds
- 1. "Turns unperceived beneath
- our Feet": Dickinson's Frequent Acts of Noticing Small Nature
- 2. "What is the Grass?": Whitman's Originating Moment of Noticing Small Nature
- Part II: Describing Local Lands
- 3. "The Acre gives them
- Place
- / They
- Him
- Attention": Dickinson's Sparse Description
- 4. "With angry moans the fierce old mother incessantly moaning": Whitman's Narrative Description
- Part III: Narrating the Regions
- 5. "A Field of Stubble, lying sere": Dickinson's Reluctant New England Narratives
- 6. "Clearing the ground for broad humanity": Whitman's Affirmative Regional Narratives
- Part IV: Envisioning the Earth
- 7. "The Earth and I and One": Dickinson's Vision of Global Dwelling
- 8. "What is this earth to our affections?": Whitman's Vision of Cosmic Companionship
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.