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Postcolonial Green is an ambitious, accessible, and original volume that will help broaden and deepen a rapidly emerging field. The collection is intellectually innovative and admirably worldly. - Rob Nixon, Rachel Carson Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin and au...thor of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor Read more
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By Elder, John
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A combination of environmental history, travel writing, literary criticism, and memoir, this book features a pivotal figure who is the nineteenth-century diplomat and writer George Perkins Marsh, generally regarded as America's first environmentalist.
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Here, Scott Herring studies work on American National Parks from a wide spectrum of creative minds, from early figures such as Muir and Thomas Moran to later observers of the parks such as Ansel Adams, Sylvia Plath, Edward Abbey, and Rick Bass.
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Considering unpublished materials and the full range of Mary Austin's literary and theoretical writing, this text presents Austin as a significant early 20th-century author who reworked the traditions of nature writing and women's regionalism to envision a sustainable and democra...tic American culture. Read more
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Hess explores Wordsworth's defining role in establishing what he designates as `the ecology of authorship': a primarily middle-class, nineteenth-century conception of nature associated with aesthetics, high culture, individualism, and nation. Instead of viewing Wordsworth as an e...arly ecologist, Hess places him within a context that is largely cultural and aesthetic. Read more
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A major problem facing American modernist poets was how to accommodate poetry and religion in a culture that considered science its most reliable source of truth. In this work, Robert Bernard Hass examines the ways in which conflict with science affected the development of Robert... Frost's career. Read more
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Here, Scott Herring studies work on American National Parks from a wide spectrum of creative minds, from early figures such as Muir and Thomas Moran to later observers of the parks such as Ansel Adams, Sylvia Plath, Edward Abbey, and Rick Bass.
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Rooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. This book offers a critical study of this genre. Each chapter situates an individual author's journals amid cont...emporary discourses of natural history. Read more
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Offers a comprehensive collection of sophisticated but accessible essays that productively investigate the relationship between European theory and ecocritique. Bringing together approaches and orientations based on the work of European philosophers and cultural theorists, this v...olume is designed to open new pathways for ecocritical theory and practice in the twenty-first century. Read more
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Offers a comprehensive collection of sophisticated but accessible essays that productively investigate the relationship between European theory and ecocritique. Bringing together approaches and orientations based on the work of European philosophers and cultural theorists, this v...olume is designed to open new pathways for ecocritical theory and practice in the twenty-first century. Read more
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