Coral Lives - Literature, Labor, and the Making of America

"A literary and cultural history of coral -- as an essential element of the marine ecosystem, a personal ornament, a global commodity, and a powerful political metaphor"--

About the author

Michele Currie Navakas is professor of English and an affiliate of the Institute for the Environment and Sustainability at Miami University of Ohio. She is the author of Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America.

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"Michele Currie Navakas gives a compelling and incisive literary and cultural history of the ways that American writers and thinkers turned to coral—a material that circulated widely in the nineteenth-century United States—as a model of and metaphor for political collectivity."---Leila Mansouri,  Journal of the Early Republic

Product details

• Authors: Michele Currie Navakas
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.09.2023
• EAN: 9780691240114
• ISBN: 978-0-691-24011-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, HISTORY / United States / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Science, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Sociology & anthropology, Literature: history and criticism, Sociology and anthropology