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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Steven Petersheim and Madison Jones IV - Contributions by Jeffrey Bilbro; Benjamin Darrell Crawford; Carrie Duke; Scott Honeycutt; Christoph Irmscher; Li-Ru Lu; Cecily Parks; Stephanie Peebles Tavera and Christopher Sloman Klappentext Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature uncovers the rich variety of environmental writing across the genres in nineteenth-century American literature. Equally relevant to courses in nineteenth-century American literature and scholars of environmental writing, these collected essays offer a representative sampling of the nineteenth century's evolving exploration of the interplay between humans and the natural environment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of NatureAcknowledgments Introduction: Toward an Environmental Ethos Steven Petersheim and Madison P. Jones IVThe Faces of Nature: The Sublime, the Romantic, and the Real1.Navigating the Interior: Edgar Huntly and the Mapping of Early America Christopher Sloman2.John D. Godman and the Creation of the Ramble Scott Honeycutt3.Celebrating the 'Great, Round, Solid Self' of Earth in Hawthorne's Short Fiction Steven PetersheimEnvironmental and Cultural Landscapes of New England "The Material and the Moral" in Concord Interpreting Nature from a "Position Between" The Intricacies of Nature: Ecological and Cultural Diversity4.Learning to Woo Meaning from Apparent Chaos:The Wild Form of Summer on the Lakes Jeffrey Bilbro Selfless Lovers in Chapter Four Milton's Influence on Fuller' Search for a Republican Form A Wild Text in Defense of a Wild Place 5.Shadow and Liminal Space in Typee and Walden Madison P. Jones IVPunning on Type in Typee "I have traveled a good deal in Concord": Walden as Travel Writing 6.Always Already Sexual: New Materialism in Whitman's Leaves of Grass Stephanie Peebles TaveraExternal (Natural) Forces: Critical Readings of Sexual Poetics in Whitman The Intra-active Kosmos: Disembodying the Human, Re-inscribing Nature Consummate with Nature: Human-Nonhuman Sexual Intra-activity 7.The Swamps of Emily Dickinson Cecily ParksThe Values of Nature: Caring for the Environment8.An Ecological Manifest Destiny: Nature and Nation in Freneau's Poetry Benjamin Darrell Crawford9.John James Audubon: From Proto-Ecological Sensibility to Conservation Ethics Li-Ru LuThe Roots of Audubon's Proto-Ecological Sensibility The Development of Audubon's Environmental Ethics Constructing a Conservationist Identity 10.Recovering John Muir's Wild Gardens Carrie DukeHistorical and Literary Context Guardians or Gardeners Afterword Christoph IrmscherWorks Cited Contributors...
