The Environmental Imagination
Ambitious study of how literature represents the natural environment, with Thoreau's Walden as the touchstone, but which also examines Berry, Muir, Leopold and Abbey.
Abbreviations Introduction PART 1: Historical and Theoretical Contexts 1. Pastoral Ideology 2. New World Dreams and Environmental Actualities 3. Representing the Environment 4. Walden's Environmental Projects PART 2: Forms of Literary Ecocentrism 5. The Aesthetics of Relinquishment 6. Nature's Personhood 7. Nature's Face, Mind's Eye: Realizing the Seasons 8. Place 9. Environmental Apocalypticism PART 3: Environmental Sainthood 10. The Thoreauvian Pilgrimage 11. The Canonization and Recanonization of the Green Thoreau 12. Text as Testament: Reading Walden for the Author Appendix Nature's Genres: Environmental Nonfiction at the Time of Thoreau's Emergence Notes Acknowledgments Index
Lawrence Buell is Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University.
| Pm Supplier | Wiley & Sons Ltd |
|---|---|
| Pm Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Pm Isbn 10 | 0674258614 |
| Pm Isbn 13 | 9780674258617 |
| Pm Publication Date | 1995-12-31 |
| Pm Width | 165 |
| Pm Height | 243 |
| Pm Author | Buell, Lawrence |
| Pm Longness | 0 |
- Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture
- Key Info: no illustrations
- Author: Buell, Lawrence
- Page Count: 586
- Publication Date: 1995-12-31
The Environmental Imagination
- Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture
- Key Info: no illustrations
- Author: Buell, Lawrence
- Page Count: 586
- Publication Date: 1995-12-31
