Nineteenth Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural - Histor

This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological concepts of dispersal.

List of contents

Introduction. Diminishment: Partial Readings in the Casualties of Natural History; 1. Sketching American Species: Birds, Weeds, and Trees in Audubon, Cooper, and Pokagon; 2. "Because I see - New Englandly - ": Emily Dickinson and the Specificity of Disjunction; 3. Coral of Life: James McCune Smith and the Diasporic Structure of Racial Uplift; 4. Thoreau's Dispersion: Writing a Natural History of Casualties.

About the author

Juliana Chow is a scholar of American literature and the environment and feminist science studies; and she has published both academic and creative writing. She is on the board of Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (INCS) and has held a research fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society.

Summary

This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of dispersal. It will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-Century American literature and Literature and the Environment.

Product details

• Authors: Juliana Chow, Chow Juliana
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781108845717
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84571-7
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: 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; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; NATURE / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest