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Zusatztext Cultural, intellectual, and environmental historians with a strong interest in the literature and poetry of period will find this book useful. Informationen zum Autor Robin Schulze is Professor of English at the University of Delaware. Her specialties include Modernist American Poetry, Textual Scholarship and Editorial Theory, and Modernist Literature and Culture. She is the author of The Web of Friendship: Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens (1995), and the editor of Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924 (2002). Klappentext The early twentieth century marked a dramatic shift in the American conception of nature. This book analyzes the ways in which the scientific recasting of American nature as an antidote for degeneration influenced work of important modernist writers Harriet Monroe, Ezra Pound, and Marianne Moore. "Schulze is a shrewd and brilliant historian of American culture expressed through the poetic arts. In this book she shows how the seemingly banal phrase 'getting back to nature' was really full of meaning and shadows, and how it stands right at the center of what we mean by modernity." --Donald Worster, author of A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir "In The Degenerate Muse, Schulze provides a radically new understanding of early modernism, illuminating ways that scientific debates about nature in relation to national degeneracy, with its deep gender and racial biases, impacted the development of modernism, especially the policies of Monroe's Poetry magazine and the early poems of Pound and Moore."-Cristanne Miller, author of Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century "This brilliantly revisionary, meticulously researched, and elegantly written new book from one of the foremost scholars of American modernist poetry reveals the distinctly modern and modernist concerns of the Progressive era's Back to Nature movement. Schulze gives us interdisciplinary work at its best, bridging the often vast divide between ecocritical and New Modernist approaches."-Mark Morrison, author of Modern Alchemy: Occultism and the Emergence of Atomic Theory Zusammenfassung The early twentieth century marked a dramatic shift in the American conception of nature. This book analyzes the ways in which the scientific recasting of American nature as an antidote for degeneration influenced work of important modernist writers Harriet Monroe, Ezra Pound, and Marianne Moore. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Introduction: Toward a Modern Nature Chapter One: Nature Study, Degeneration, and the Problem of Poetry Chapter Two: Harriet Monroe's Pioneer Modernism Chapter Three: Ezra Pound and the Poetics of Hygiene Chapter Four: Marianne Moore, Degeneration, and Domestication Chapter Five: Marianne Moore, Nature, and National Health Conclusion Bibliography ...
