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Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists - An Ecocritical Study, 1789-1912

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Zusatztext 'Romantic Naturalists! Early Environmentalists makes a contribution to scholarship in the field by bringing together a range of transatlantic authors - White! Wordsworth! Emerson! Hill! and Muir - to show their literary! philosophical! environmental! ecological! conservationist! and preservationist intersections. It is a wide-ranging study that makes connections not previously foregrounded in criticism.' Douglas Kneale! Brock University! Canada! author of Romantic Aversions: Aftermaths of Classicism in Wordsworth and Coleridge 'This book brings a historical perspective to the most important discussion of our time. It takes the observation and recording of natural phenomena by Gilbert White in eighteenth century Southern England as its starting point! showing how this seemingly simple activity influenced thinking through the nineteenth century. Dewey W. Hall clearly demonstrates the influence of the new sciences such as meteorology on the literature of two hundred years ago.' Jeff Cowton! Wordsworth Trust! UK 'This clearly written and enjoyable book makes an important contribution to lanscape studies ...' Environment and History Informationen zum Autor Dewey W. Hall is Professor of English at California State Polytechnic University! Pomona! USA. During his residence as a Mayers Research Fellow at the Huntington Library in 2012! he completed much of the writing for this book. Klappentext In his study of Romantic naturalists and early environmentalists! Hall claims the creation of the National Trust in the United Kingdom and the National Parks in the United States were both shaped by literature. Central to Hall's project are links among Gilbert White! William Wordsworth! Ralph Waldo Emerson. Zusammenfassung In his study of Romantic naturalists and early environmentalists, Hall claims the creation of the National Trust in the United Kingdom and the National Parks in the United States were both shaped by literature. Central to Hall's project are links among Gilbert White, William Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, Dewey W. Hall; Part 1 Toward Romantic Naturalists; Chapter 1 Gilbert White’s Legacy, Dewey W. Hall; Chapter 2 Romantic Naturalists: White, Wordsworth, and Otley, Dewey W. Hall; Chapter 3 Emerson, the Naturalist in Nature, Dewey W. Hall; Part 2 Toward Early Environmentalists; Chapter 4 Green Letters, Green Lectures, and the “Rash Assault”, Dewey W. Hall; Chapter 5 Wordsworth, Octavia Hill, and the National Trust, Dewey W. Hall; Chapter 6 Emerson in Muir’s Sierra and Our National Parks, Dewey W. Hall; Chapter 7 Shaping Muir, Reshaping Yosemite, Dewey W. Hall;...

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