Environmental Practice and Early American Literature

Informationen zum Autor Michael Ziser is Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Environments and Societies Program at the University of California, Davis. Klappentext This text rethinks American literary history by focusing on the non-human, environmental agents that have shaped its development. Zusammenfassung Ranging from the late-sixteenth-century English exploration of North America through the mid-nineteenth-century industrialization of the United States! this text proposes an innovative! eco-cultural approach to the study of American literary history! documenting how ostensibly human literary culture emerges from much broader eco-historical conditions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: more-than-human literary history; Part I. Leaves and Roots: 1. Sovereign remedies; 2. Staple-colony circumspection; Part II. Fruits and Flowers: 3. The pomology of Eden; 4. Beeing in the world; Conclusion: 5. Walled in and farmed out: pastoral isolation and georgic collectivities; Notes.

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• Authors: Michael Ziser, Michael (University of California Ziser
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.07.2013
• EAN: 9781107005433
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00543-3
• No. of pages: 231
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American; Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries