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Environmental Evasion : The Literary, Critical, and Cultural Politics of "Nature's Nation" /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Willis, Lloyd, 1978-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.