Fallen Forests - Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women s Environmental

Informationen zum Autor KAREN L. KILCUP is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her many books include Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women's Environmental Writing, 1781-1924 (Georgia), Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry and Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition. Klappentext Illuminating the foundations for contemporary women's environmental writing, Fallen Forests shows how their nineteenth-century predecessors marshalled powerful affective, ethical, and spiritual resources to chastise, educate, and motivate readers to engage in positive social change. Zusammenfassung Fallen Forests contributes to scholarship in American women's writing, ecofeminism, ecocriticism, and feminist rhetoric, expanding the literary, historical, and theoretical grounds for some of today's most pressing environmental debates.

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• Authors: Karen Kilcup, Karen L Kilcup, Karen L. Kilcup
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2013
• EAN: 9780820345000
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4500-0
• No. of pages: 512
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies