Nineteenth Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural - Histor

This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological concepts of dispersal.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Diminishment: Partial Readings in the Casualties of Natural History; 1. Sketching American Species: Birds, Weeds, and Trees in Audubon, Cooper, and Pokagon; 2. "Because I see - New Englandly - ": Emily Dickinson and the Specificity of Disjunction; 3. Coral of Life: James McCune Smith and the Diasporic Structure of Racial Uplift; 4. Thoreau's Dispersion: Writing a Natural History of Casualties.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Juliana Chow is a scholar of American literature and the environment and feminist science studies; and she has published both academic and creative writing. She is on the board of Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (INCS) and has held a research fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society.

Zusammenfassung

This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of dispersal. It will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-Century American literature and Literature and the Environment.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Juliana Chow, Chow Juliana
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781108845717
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84571-7
• Seiten: 290
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Natur, Technik > Natur: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; NATURE / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest