This book uncovers the rich variety of environmental writing across the genres in nineteenth-century American literature. The essays in this collection offer a representative sampling of the nineteenth century’s evolving exploration of the interplay between humans and the natural environment.
This book uncovers the rich variety of environmental writing across the genres in nineteenth-century American literature. The essays in this collection offer a representative sampling of the nineteenth century’s evolving exploration of the interplay between humans and the natural environment.
Steven Petersheim is assistant professor of English at Indiana University East. Madison P. Jones IV is founder and editor-in-chief of Kudzu House Quarterly, a literary and scholarly journal devoted to ecological thought.
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Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward an Environmental Ethos Steven Petersheim and Madison P. Jones IV The Faces of Nature: The Sublime, the Romantic, and the Real Navigating the Interior: Edgar Huntly and the Mapping of Early America Christopher Sloman John D. Godman and the Creation of the Ramble Scott Honeycutt Celebrating the 'Great, Round, Solid Self' of Earth in Hawthorne's Short Fiction Steven Petersheim Environmental 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 Diversity 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 Shadow and Liminal Space in Typee and Walden Madison P. Jones IV Punning on Type in Typee "I have traveled a good deal in Concord": Walden as Travel Writing Always Already Sexual: New Materialism in Whitman's Leaves of GrassStephanie Peebles Tavera External (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 The Swamps of Emily Dickinson Cecily Parks The Values of Nature: Caring for the Environment An Ecological Manifest Destiny: Nature and Nation in Freneau's Poetry Benjamin Darrell Crawford John James Audubon: From Proto-Ecological Sensibility to Conservation Ethics Li-Ru Lu The Roots of Audubon's Proto-Ecological Sensibility The Development of Audubon's Environmental Ethics Constructing a Conservationist Identity Recovering John Muir's Wild Gardens Carrie Duke Historical and Literary Context Guardians or Gardeners Afterword Christoph Irmscher Works Cited Contributors
Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward an Environmental Ethos Steven Petersheim and Madison P. Jones IV The Faces of Nature: The Sublime, the Romantic, and the Real Navigating the Interior: Edgar Huntly and the Mapping of Early America Christopher Sloman John D. Godman and the Creation of the Ramble Scott Honeycutt Celebrating the 'Great, Round, Solid Self' of Earth in Hawthorne's Short Fiction Steven Petersheim Environmental 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 Diversity 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 Shadow and Liminal Space in Typee and Walden Madison P. Jones IV Punning on Type in Typee "I have traveled a good deal in Concord": Walden as Travel Writing Always Already Sexual: New Materialism in Whitman's Leaves of GrassStephanie Peebles Tavera External (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 The Swamps of Emily Dickinson Cecily Parks The Values of Nature: Caring for the Environment An Ecological Manifest Destiny: Nature and Nation in Freneau's Poetry Benjamin Darrell Crawford John James Audubon: From Proto-Ecological Sensibility to Conservation Ethics Li-Ru Lu The Roots of Audubon's Proto-Ecological Sensibility The Development of Audubon's Environmental Ethics Constructing a Conservationist Identity Recovering John Muir's Wild Gardens Carrie Duke Historical and Literary Context Guardians or Gardeners Afterword Christoph Irmscher Works Cited Contributors
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